Another post on Ellington Reflections
I don’t know from where Steven Bowie gets his energy but now there is a new post on Ellington Reflections. It is about Wellman Braud – Ellington’s bass player from…
In a Sentimental Mood
One of the outcomes of DESS Ellington Meeting 2022 was a list of Ellington songs that the participants wanted to hear more regularly. I have lost the list but it…
DESS Bulletin 2023-4
A new issue of the DESS Bulletin has arrived. It is a solid isssue put together by its editor Bo Haufman. Oscar Pettiford is the cover artist this time. In…
In Color – More
On October 14, the website published a YouTube video with a colorized version of the 1943 RKO film Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. Here is another colorized version of an…
New Issue of Blue Light
The autumn issue of Blue Light (Volume 30:2) reached the DESUK members in mid October. It is another very good issue by Gareth Evans. It is dominated by a ten…
Ellington Reflections News
Steven Bowie published a couple of week ago a new post in his amazing blog. He is as regular as a clock! This month he has chosen to talk about…
Ellington In Order Volume 6
It has just become available and has music from January 9 1934 to July 17, 1936 As in Volume 5, a substantial part of the new Ellington In Order are…
Ellington at Santa Monica 1960
On March 2, 1960, Ellington started what was to become a twelwe week engagement at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, where the orchestra performed in the Starlight Lounge. Juan…
More of Duke at the Piano
By chance I came across a small piece of a reel-to-reel tape the other day. It had a segment of a Date With The Duke broadcast with Ellington playing a…
Recording for a TV Broadcast
As said in the previous article, Ellington had been contracted by the French public radio and TV agency ORTF (Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française) to make two programs during his visit…