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CONTENTS

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Prelude

Introduction

       PART I   The Duke Ellington Orchestra

CHAPTER 1   Ellington and Early Jazz

CHAPTER 2   The Miley Method and the Ellington Problem

CHAPTER 3   The 1930s: An “Accumulation of Personalities”

CHAPTER 4   Billy Strayhorn

      PART II   The Beatles

CHAPTER 5   Early Beatles and Rock and Roll

CHAPTER 6   Four-Headed Monster

CHAPTER 7   Retreat

CHAPTER 8   Grow a Little Taller

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index