Category: Alice Babs

After Helsinki, Ellington and the orchestra went to Stockholm where they were going to have a busy period.  On 6 February, they played  two evening concerts  at the Stockholm Concert…

The new issue has of course the DESS Ellington 125 mini conference in Stockholm on April 29, 2024 as a particular focus. Bo Haufman gives a two page summary of…

Alice Babs was featured at the 1990 Duke Ellington Study Group Conference in Ottawa both as a speaker and as a soloist with Andrew Homzy’s Jazz Orchestra. Here is a…

In part 2 of the concert, Alice Babs joins the orchestra. She sings four songs and starts approprietly with I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart, which is …

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

After the opening of the conference, the first morning had a very strong Swedish accent. It started with a panel talking about “Ellington in Sweden 1939”. Participants in the panel…

After almost two years of preparations, the official opening of the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm  took place on May 20, 1994. It was the 12th one in the series…

PÅ SVENSKA Today is September 1 and as promised the DESS website is back after its summer break. As before, we will continue to do our best to provide members…

IN ENGLISH Inför Alice Babs’ 75-årsdag skrev journalisten och gode vännen Ragnvi Gylder en lång artikel om henne. Den finns nu i Ellington-arkivet/Artiklar m.m./Alice Babs. Nästa DESS-möte är den 13…

För den som vill komma Alice Babs närmare in på livet som artist och person finns filmen “Naturröstens hemlighet” sammanställd och producerad av Lasse Zachrisson, visad på TV och utgiven…