DESS will stay on – at least for now
A couple of months ago, the Chairman of Duke Ellington Society of Sweden, Göran Wallén, called a members meeting to decide on a proposal from the Board to dissolve DESS.…
Dan Morgenstern talks about Arthur Whetsol
Dan Morgenstern, who at that time was still the Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, appeared in afternoon session of the first day of…
Ellington i Stockholm 1967 – again
More than five years ago, the website published two articles about Ellington’s and his band’s concerts in in Stockholm on 24th January 1967. They were made available to the members…
Interview with Ellington in Stockholm 1958
It is a new month and I will dig a little bit into the Benny Åslund’s Collection. I start with an interview of Duke Ellington. Nothing sensational and many of…
New issue of Blue Light
I have already written about the last issue of the DESS Bulletin. There were special reasons for this as I think many visitors to the website understand but I was…