Duke Ellington In The Round June 4, 1958
In the first half of June 1958, Ellington and his orchestra were playing their traditional summer gig at Blue Note and Ellington brought six of them to the WBBM studio…
Sacred Concert in Washington D.C. 1966 part 2
This is the second side of the tape and I hope that the visitors to the website will enjoy as much as I do. It is only 25 minutes but…
Sacred Concert in Washington D.C. 1966 part 1
A couple of weeks ago, I found in one of the Benny Åslund boxes a cassette marked 5 Dec 66 Wash “Sacred Concert”. When I put it in my cassette…
New Year for Ellington Galaxy
In my last article in 2025, I said that one of my focuses in 2025 would be the Benny Aaslund Collection and I will stick to that. Benny was the…
Ellington Galaxy at the End of Last Year
It is a time for reflection. The website is under renovation and will have a more simple look when it is finished after the holidays. I will continue to manage…
DESS will stay on – at least for now
A couple of months ago, the Chairman of Duke Ellington Society of Sweden, Göran Wallén, called a members meeting to decide on a proposal from the Board to dissolve DESS.…
Dan Morgenstern talks about Arthur Whetsol
Dan Morgenstern, who at that time was still the Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, appeared in afternoon session of the first day of…
Ellington i Stockholm 1967 – again
More than five years ago, the website published two articles about Ellington’s and his band’s concerts in in Stockholm on 24th January 1967. They were made available to the members…
Interview with Ellington in Stockholm 1958
It is a new month and I will dig a little bit into the Benny Åslund’s Collection. I start with an interview of Duke Ellington. Nothing sensational and many of…
New issue of Blue Light
I have already written about the last issue of the DESS Bulletin. There were special reasons for this as I think many visitors to the website understand but I was…