Word: indigos
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...fast life, and early on the Duke developed an ability to compose anywhere-restaurants, buses, hotels, even taxis. He wrote his first big hit, Mood Indigo, in 15 minutes while waiting for his mother to fix dinner. Many of his early works shimmered with exotic "jungle" colors, achieved through the clever use of mutes, slurs and growls, that were intended to romanticize the African roots of jazz. Later works such as Warm Valley and Dusk took on subtle pastels and sophisticated shapes. Ellington's style and reputation eventually transcended jazz, and he even performed with major symphony orchestras...
...bars for the crowd that had gathered in Manhattan's French consulate to see Ellington presented with the French Legion of Honor-the first to go to a jazz musician. The ambassador answered back on the piano with a few bars of Ellington's Mood Indigo...
...heavily taxed in the country of origin, they are usually not a bargain at the airport. Nevertheless, anyone who forgot to get something for Aunt Minnie can airport-shop for Indian applique work in Panama ($8), Welsh tapestry cloth in London ($7), Eskimo carvings in Montreal and local indigo-printed cloth in Nairobi ($10). Also available at some duty-free shops: locally produced canned delicacies...
After the lettermen come the revivalists. Boniface Baker, the easygoing grandson of a Fox convert and one of De Hartog's compromisers, suddenly catches the old fire again. In his mid-50s, Baker frees his slaves, parcels his indigo plantation among them, and takes off for the frontier. One solid measure of the book is that it makes this radical gesture oddly plausible...
...exhibit's first few glass display cases (handsomely arranged) are indigo scrolls in gold and silver ink illustrating episodes of the sutras. One can't escape the richness of their age since they are placed next to eroding bronze containers dating from 1090. And in Lake and Mountains at Daybreak, Summer, an early 19th century painting of the literary style, one can see how Van Gogh borrowed from the Japanese method of using rows of short vertical lines to illustrate grass or fields...