Stockholm 2004 revisited (1)
The 19th Duke Ellington Study Group conference took place in Stockholm May 12-15, 2004. Sven Eriksson – DESS member, Ellington collector, hi-fi expert and much more – recorded the proceedings…
Tapes from Study Group conferences
The 24 Duke Ellington Study Group conferences have been documented in photos, sound and video recordings, articles in the DEMS Bulletin, the DESS Bulletin, Blue Light and similar publication etc.…
Conover interviews Ellington 1973
Willis Conover and Duke Ellington were good friends and they got to know each other already when Conover arrived in Washington D.C. in the late 1940’s. Source: Digital Library, North…
Meet The Composer
On September 24 last year, the website published a post with a radio program from 1949 with Willis Conover playing Ellington music. By that time, Conover was working for Voice…
DR Ellington Broadcasts (16)
The 16th program in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s based on the Mercer Ellington donation is the second ”Goodie” for May. As usual,…
Cat Anderson
Duke Ellington 1965
Duke Ellington i Sverige
Herbie Jones
In English
Ray Nance
Roland Sterner
Ellington in Stockholm 1965 (3)
In a post on April 20, the website published some photos from Ellington’s concert in Stockholm on February 2, 1965 taken by the film photographer (and much more) Roland Sterner.…
Birdland, May 3, 1951
Thelma Carpenter sings Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me We have one last recording from Birdland in May 1951 to offer our members in The Goodies Room, namely music…
DESS-möte 27 april 2017
Medlemsmötet den 27 april blev en succé med två mästerliga aktörer – Gert Palmcrantz och Ulf Johansson-Werre – i centrum. Tack vare bidrag från Leif Jönsson, Bo Haufman och Sonja…