DESS Bulletin 2023-3
Harold Ashby is the cover artist in the latest issue of the Bulletin. It is written by Peter Gardner and was originally published in the second issue of Blue Light…
Listen to Harmony in Harlem
https://www.harmonyinharlem.co.uk/video/SunsetAndTheMockingbird-fb.mp4 Michael Kilpatrick and his Harmony in Harlem is one of the key orchestras to keep Ellington alive and reach out to new audiences. At he moment, Michael and the…
New on TDWAW
This week David Palmquist has shared new information on The Duke Where And When (tdwaw.ca). The first one is about the opening of Club Ebony on 11 December 1947. The…
Erik Wiedemann – Sacred Concerts
The Danish jazz journalist and Ellington researcher Erik Wiedemann was a frequent presenter at Ellington conferences in the early 1990’s. In Los Angeles, he talked about Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in…
Ellington in Order Volume 4
It has just become available and has music from 2 February to 21 December 1932. Most of the recordings in Volume 4 are recordings made by American Record Corporation (ARC)…
Floyd Levin Talks About Barney Bigard at Ellington ’91
Floyd Lewis, promoter of traditional jazz and author of many books and articles on jazz, made a presentation about his close friend Barney Bigard on the second day of Ellington…
Andrew Homzy – Ellington Archive Findings
Andrew Homzy was one of the speakers on the first day. He was originally scheduled to speak about Anatomy of a Murder but in the last minute, he changed the…
A Week At Apollo in 1959
While browsing last week, I came by chance across an ad for Ellington’s appearance at Apollo Theatre in the week 27 February to 5 March, 1959. The engagement and the…
Ellington ’91 in Los Angeles – Program
The 10th International Ellington Conference took place in Los Angeles 13-16 June 1991. It was organised by The Duke Ellington Society Southern California Chapter and announced at Ellington ’90 in…
Duke Ellington Helsinki 5 Feb. 1963
Duke Ellington arrived at Malmö Airport from Paris on 3 March to start the Nordic leg of his 1963 Spring tour of Europe. In the same evening, he gave a…