Month: February 2017

Den här gången är det DESS’ ordförande Leif Jönsson som står för dem. “Det var den 8 februari 1966. Jag kom till Cirkus vid lunchtid och hittade en liten sidodörr…

Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid & broadcast intro Ellington had a rather busy schedule in June 1951, with Meadowbrook and Birdland  being the most important engagements, the latter lasting from June…

Since two years has passed since its publication, the first issue of the DESS Bulletin in 2015 is now available in pdf-format to anyone interested in Duke Ellington and his…

This time the topics of “Bits and Pieces” are the DESS-meeting last Monday, an interview with Alice Babs in Musiktidningen in 1975 about her and Ellington and some more on…

In 1942, the English jazz journalist and author Max Jones founded together with Albert McCarthy and Charles Fox the English jazz magazine Jazz Music. Its issue no. 8/1943 was  focused on…

The 13th Ellington program broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s based on the Mercer Ellington donation is the third “Goodie” for the month of February. As usual, it…

Aberdeen A little more than a week after his stay at Meadowbrook, we find Ellington and the orchestra playing at Birdland, the famous jazz spot in Manhattan. Their stay there…

Alf Arvidsson, professor vid Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper vid Umeå universitet, har gjort tillgänglig för DESS’ medlemmar en rapport med de första artiklarna om Duke Ellington i svensk press.…

The 12th Ellington program broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s based on the Mercer Ellington donation is the first “Goodie” for the month of February. As usual, it…