Duke Ellington in Person

Shortly after Duke Ellington's death, Ralph Gleason,critic of RollingStone, wrote: 'His music gave me countless hours of pleasure throughout my life., And it was not just pleasure. it was inspiration- Duke's mystery was inspiring. He made you want to know. He was musician's musician and a composer's composer. And one incredible man.
No one knew this 'incredible man' better than his only son Mercer, who has now teamed with Stanley Dance, the best of the Ellington historians, to write the most complete and intimate memoir available of America's genius of jazz.