By Ulf Lundin
Richard Wang was an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Ensembles at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He also directed the professional Fletcher Basington Orchestra which specialised…
About a year and a half ago I received an email from Jack Chambers with a big attachment. It was the first draft of his upcoming book A Tone Parallel…
Hadju’s presentation made me interested in finding more about the show which never made it to Broadway. He writes about it in Lush Life, his book about about Billy Strayhorn.…
The trio with Jack Fallon, Malcolm Mitchel and Tony Crombie finished the morning of Day 2 of Ellington ’97 with swinging interpretations of Satin Doll and D0n’t Get Around Much…