Ellington ‘ 91 – Ellington and Religion
At the time of Ellingt0n ’91, Janna Tull Stead had studied and lectured about this topic for some years and in 1999 her work would result in her groundbreaking book…
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At the time of Ellingt0n ’91, Janna Tull Stead had studied and lectured about this topic for some years and in 1999 her work would result in her groundbreaking book…
I don’t know from where Steven Bowie gets his energy but now there is a new post on Ellington Reflections. It is about Wellman Braud – Ellington’s bass player from…
One of the outcomes of DESS Ellington Meeting 2022 was a list of Ellington songs that the participants wanted to hear more regularly. I have lost the list but it…
A new issue of the DESS Bulletin has arrived. It is a solid isssue put together by its editor Bo Haufman. Oscar Pettiford is the cover artist this time. In…
On October 14, the website published a YouTube video with a colorized version of the 1943 RKO film Duke Ellington & His Orchestra. Here is another colorized version of an…
The autumn issue of Blue Light (Volume 30:2) reached the DESUK members in mid October. It is another very good issue by Gareth Evans. It is dominated by a ten…
Steven Bowie published a couple of week ago a new post in his amazing blog. He is as regular as a clock! This month he has chosen to talk about…
It has just become available and has music from January 9 1934 to July 17, 1936 As in Volume 5, a substantial part of the new Ellington In Order are…
On March 2, 1960, Ellington started what was to become a twelwe week engagement at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, where the orchestra performed in the Starlight Lounge. Juan…
By chance I came across a small piece of a reel-to-reel tape the other day. It had a segment of a Date With The Duke broadcast with Ellington playing a…