DR Ellington Broadcasts (26)
The fourth ”goodie” in September is program 26 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…
Meadowbrook Gardens Cafe Oct. 4-5 1947
Listen to the vibraphone player! Medowbrook Gardens, situated in Culver City, California, burned down to the ground in 1948. It had been started as Sebastian’s Cotton Club, transformed into Casa Mañana…
New York honors Duke Ellington 1965
The decision by the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board in May 1965 to reject the recommendation by its Music Jury that Duke Ellington should be awarded a Special Citation created an…
A recording session in 1947 with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Duke Ellington in a Columbia recording studio Chester Crumpler sings Maybe I Should Change My Ways Ellington made the last recordings of the RCA-Victor period in September 1946 and after…
HEADING FOR NEWPORT 1956
Stichting Doctor Jazz presents a previously unissued concert by Duke Ellington and his orchestra from the Hill Auditorium at Ann Arbor University in Michigan, dated 2 July, 1956. This happened…
Duke Ellington at the Zanzibar Oct. 29, 1945
Stompy Jones During the years of the Petrillo recording ban, 1942-1944, there were of course very few studio recordings by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, but fortunately for us, he…
Smått och gott
Historisk radioutsändning På den amerikanska radiostationen WBGO i Newark, New Jersey kunde man för ett par dagar sedan höra ett radioprogram med rubriken “Hear the Earliest Surviving Radio Broadcast by…
Ellington-serie på Sveriges Radio 1994 (9)
Den här gången är det dags för det nionde programmet i Jan Bruérs och Lars Westins serie om Duke Ellington. Titeln den här gången är Praise God and Dance. Den…
DESS-mötet 17 sep. 2018
Kvällens föredragshållare var Bo Lindström och publiken lyssnade uppmärksamt. Bo är specialist på äldre jazz och tillsammans med fransmannen Dan Vernhettes författare till flera böcker i ämnet, bl.a. om…