DESS Bulletin 2024:3
Taft Jordan is cover boy in the new issue. Bo Haufman has written the four page article. It covers of course Jordan’s period with Chick Webb and Duke but the…
Duke Ellington in Sweden 1963 part 4
Also on 7 February, the fourth day of Ellington’s concert tour of Sweden was going to be hectic. It started after lunch with the rehearsals for the concert part of…
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Cullberrg Balett
Duke Ellington 1963
In English
Indigo
Leif Anderson
Lennart Östberg
Night Creature
Stockholm 6 February 1963
Duke Ellington in Sweden 1963 part 3
After Helsinki, Ellington and the orchestra went to Stockholm where they were going to have a busy period. On 6 February, they played two evening concerts at the Stockholm Concert…
Duke Ellington in Sweden 1963 part 2
After Lund, the next day Ellington and the band went to Gothenburg (Göteborg) for two concerts at Gothenburg Concert Hall (Göteborgs Konserthur. The first tok place at 7:00 pm and…
Duke Ellington in Sweden 1963 part 1
In 1963, Duke Ellington visited Sweden twice. The first visit was in early February and the second in June. The February visit was part of a long tour organised by…