Month: March 2018

Ellington Study Group Conference May 25-27, 2018 Even if there is still no official announcement, it seems that the 25th Ellington Study Group Conference will take place in England or…

The fourth ”goodie” for March is program 23 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…

The predecessor to The Hollywood Empire was called Tom Breneman’s Thomas Breneman Smith (June 18, 1902 – April 28, 1948) was a popular 1940s American radio personality known to his…

On November 10 last year, the website published an article by Joe Medjuck on an unabridged version of Chelsea Bridge issued on vol. 12 in the Storyville DETS series. The…

One of the surprises on the last day of Ellington ’94 was a presentation by Luciano Massagli and Giovanni Volonté of what was to become NDESOR – the totally indispensable…

The second ”goodie” for March is program 22 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…

Duke & Billie around 1949 Our next visit to the Empire Hotel in Hollywood brings you music from February 9, 1949, originally issued on AFRS JJ-47 (AFRS=Armed Forces Radio Service).…

Den här gången är det dags för det femte programmet i Jan Bruérs och Lars Westins serie om Duke Ellington. Titeln på programmet är “Lush Life” och det handlar naturligtvis…

In mid-October last year, the DESS website presented the first Ellington Study Group Conference, which took place in Washington D.C. in May 1983. Six years later the conference was back…