Category: 7th Ellington Conference

In their conference folders, the participants in Ellington ’89 found an invitation to a very special event. The Washington jazz broadcaster and Ellington aficionado Felix Grant had spent a lot…

The second day of the conference ended with a concert by Doug Richard’s Great American Music Ensemble. It provided the audience with “A Panorama of Ellington’s Music From The Late…

The second day of the conference also had a very full program. and the President of Chapter 90 of the Ellington Society, Terrell Allen,  guided the audience through it with…

The report from Ellington ’89 that appeared in the 1989-3 issue of the DEMS Bulletin, says “that visitors from abroad appreciated the Smithsonian all-day as ideal”. For most of them,…

Following the very successful and almost legendary Ellington ’88 conference in Oldham, England, the Ellington Study Group Conference returned to Washington D.C. for its 7th edition. It took place on…