Year: 2017

In the 1950’s Duke Ellington and his orchestra visited Blue Note in Chicago many times. In particular, it was his main venue for New Year’s celebrations, and he played there…

This is the last installment of presentations at the conference – at least for now. They are all presentations from its last day. Thanks to hard work by Patricia Willard…

This time we provide three more presentation from the second day of the conference. First comes one by Phil Schaap, which was actually not in the original program but added…

In March 1980, Mercer Ellington visited Chicago and Dick Buckley of radio station WBEZ and an active member of the local Ellington community took the opportunity to make a long…

Here is some more from the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm. One of the afternoon presentations on the second day was by Jan Bruér. He talked about “Duke Ellington in…

The second ”goodie” for December is program 20 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…

Här kommer en kort rapport från mötet baserad på uppgifter från några av deltagarna och med foton tagna av Bo Haufman. Kvällens föredragshållare var Ivan Sundberg, som under många år…

Richard Wang, director of the jazz ensemble at the University of Illinois, gave the last presentation of the first day. He talked about the 1994 revival in Chicago of Ellington’s…

In the 1940’s, from 1943 to 1948, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC no less than on seven different occasions. On each of these occasions…

An Irving Mills Advertising Manual for Ellington To promote Ellington, Irving Mills, amongst other things, had his publicity people prepare advertising manuals with “stories”, quotes and pictures, which newspapers could easily…