Month: May 2018

Take C of Black and Tan Fantasy During the last ten years DESS member Bo Lindqvist has tried to add all the original versions of Ellington’s recording for OKeh to…

Thomas Erikson stod för föredraget den här gången. När han senast framträdde vid ett DESS-möte pratade han om Tricky Sam Nanton. Den här gånger var ämnet Lawrence Brown. Vi har…

A highlight of the second day was another nightly concert. This time it was Bob Wilber and the Ellington ’88 Orchestra that took the stage and they did so to…

When one looks at the program for the conference, which has got a very nice and clear design, it is easy to understand why it is considered as one of…

The Ellington Study Group Conference in Oldham, England in 1985 was apparently very special. Roger Boyes was there and he says that “the spirit it generated was quite magical”. As…

The second  ”goodie” in May is program 24 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…

Den här gången är det dags för det sjunde programmet i Jan Bruérs och Lars Westins serie om Duke Ellington. Titeln på programmet är “Crescendo in Blue” och det är…

In their conference folders, the participants in Ellington ’89 found an invitation to a very special event. The Washington jazz broadcaster and Ellington aficionado Felix Grant had spent a lot…

       Joe Williams and Oliver Nelson also participated in the celebrations The third part of Bob Udkoff’s birthday party is not complete, due to problematic source material, but if we…

Ellington ’18 in Birmingham Finally, information on the presentations to be made at the conference is starting to become available. Among them are: Jack Chambers: Celebration, Duke Ellington’s Lost Symphony…