Author: Ulf Lundin

Bill Saxonis’ annual Ellington program on University of  Albany’s radio station 96.9 WCDB was this year broadcasted on April 23. The program was as usual hosted by the radio station’s…

Harold Ashby is the cover artist in the latest issue of the Bulletin. It is written by Peter Gardner and was originally published in the second issue of Blue Light…

https://www.harmonyinharlem.co.uk/video/SunsetAndTheMockingbird-fb.mp4 Michael Kilpatrick and his Harmony in Harlem is one of the key orchestras to keep Ellington alive and reach out to new audiences. At he moment, Michael and the…

This week David Palmquist has shared new information on The Duke Where And When (tdwaw.ca). The first one is about the opening of Club Ebony on 11 December 1947. The…

The Danish jazz journalist and Ellington researcher Erik Wiedemann was a frequent presenter at Ellington conferences in the early 1990’s. In Los Angeles, he talked about Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in…

It has just become available and has music from 2 February to 21 December 1932. Most of the recordings in Volume 4 are recordings made by American Record Corporation (ARC)…

Floyd Lewis, promoter of traditional jazz and author of many books and articles on jazz, made a presentation about his close friend Barney Bigard on the second day of Ellington…

Andrew Homzy was one of the speakers on the first day. He was originally scheduled to speak about Anatomy of a Murder but in the last minute, he changed the…

While browsing last week, I came by chance across an ad for Ellington’s appearance at Apollo Theatre in the week 27 February to 5 March, 1959. The engagement and the…

The 10th International Ellington Conference took place in Los Angeles 13-16 June 1991. It was organised by The Duke Ellington Society Southern California Chapter and announced at Ellington ’90 in…