7 SEPTEMBER 1974, page 19

Blowing His Trumpet John

ny Mercer m.. fs My Mistress Duke Ellin g ton ( W. H. Allen e , 5 , 50) this autobio g raphy by Edward Kennedy b gton were a concert piece, it would be g in saYin g andante or......

Painting His Own Portrait

colhi Wilson My Li f e Oscar Kokoschka ( Thames and Hudson £5.25 ) Let me say at once that I suspect this is one of the g reat artistic autobiographies, comparable to those of......