Month: March 2017

The first issue for 2017 has started to arrive in the mailboxes of DESUK members. The postman delivered it to my box a couple of days after I learned about…

Something To Live For The first set of Cirkus concert was undoubtedly telecasted by Swedish Television (and was also rebroadcasted by the French TV-station M6 around 1990). However, it is…

Imagine My Frustration The performance at Cirkus in Stockholm on February 8, 1966 was carried out as one concert with an intermission. Both sets are believed to have been broadcasted…

On September 15, 2016, we published an article by Jan Bruér with his recollections of the rehearsal for Ellington’s telecast from Cirkus in Stockholm on February 8, 1966. In his…

Webbplatsen har tidigare rapporterat om det trevliga initiativet av Frimurarlogen Gyllene Snittet i Karlstad att ägna ett av sina medlemsmöten åt Ellington och hans musik. Arrangemanget har nu också uppmärksammats…

Storyville has just released volume 23 in its Treasury Shows series. Now only two more issues remain until the series is complete. It picks up where volume 22 ended, i.e.…

Bo Haufman fyller 80 år idag. Duke Ellington Society of Sweden (DESS) och webbplatsen ber att få gratulera den ungdomlige jubilaren. Happy Birthday Bosse!   Foto: Sonja Svensson Bo är…

The 14th 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 March. As usual, it…

The first issue of DESUK’s Blue Light in 2015 is now available to DESS members in the Ellington Archive. It is added to the issues of Blue Light 2011-2014 already…

From Calloway to Mulligan    Charlie Barnet            Boyd Raeburn           Gerry Mulligan     Count Basie               Cab Calloway        Jimmie Lunceford Black Beauty Nobody really knows how…