With the publication in English of Luca Bragalini's study Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions now just a week away, here is our final pre-publication posting.
A compact disc of recordings of the 'new' and newly-discovered Ellington works was included in the original Italian publication of the book. For this new iteraton of the book, the International Center for American Music has made these same recordings available on line. We have published already the recording of Celebration. Today we present the triptych Les Trois Rois Noir as they are presented on the American Music Center's page here.
“Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions” by Luca Bragalini, University Press of Mississippi.
Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions (UPM-University Press of Mississippi, 2025) is the first book entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music. The new international edition of the book, based on the Italian text published by EDT in 2018, was translated by Brent Waterhouse under the scholarly supervision of ICAMus and Aloma Bardi. The audio files accompanying the book are made accessible on the ICAMus channels.
Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions by Luca Bragalini. Foreword by David Schiff. Preface by Aloma Bardi.
University Press of Mississippi, 2025 - American Made Music Series.
Audio files complementing Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions:
- Three Black Kings - Part 1 - “King of the Nativity”
- Three Black Kings - Part 2 - “King Solomon”
- Three Black Kings - Part 3 - “Martin Luther King (Elos)”
- Paolo Birro, piano
Bepi D’Amato, clarinet & alto saxophone
Teatro Marrucino Orchestra
SIdMA Jazz Orchestra
Bruno Tommaso, conductor
Live recording - Chieti, Italy, March 6, 2007.
Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions by Luca Bragalini addresses English language readers in an adapted and revised edition based on the book published by EDT in Italy in 2018, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington From La Scala to Harlem: Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions. In the English text, based on Professor Bragalini’s original Italian text, translated by Dr. Brent Waterhouse under the scholarly supervision of ICAMus and Aloma Bardi who worked in close association with the author the University Press of Mississippi edition of Luca Bragalini’s book can now meet the large audience it was meant for.
LUCA BRAGALINI is professor of history and analysis of jazz at the Music Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. Bragalini was a distinguished scholar at Reed College, where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke EllingtonChet Baker, and Luciano Chailly. The Italian edition of his monographic study on Ellington, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington was named Best Musicological Book of 2018 by the Jazzit Awards.
