Morton John Fass:
Backstory In Blue
Ellington At Newport '56
Rutgers University Press (United States), 2008
Hardback, 336 pages
Size: 254x178 mm
ISBN: 9780813542829
ISBN-10: 0813542820
Backstory In Blue
Tells the story of who and what made Ellington's composition of a fourteen-bar choruses of rhythm and dissonance, played on the night of July 7, 1956, so compelling and how one piece of music reflected the feelings and shaped the sensibilities of the postwar generation.

