Category: Duke Ellington Study Group conferences

The website published a first short report on the Ellington 2018 conference in a Bits and Pieces article on May 30. This month we will publish some more snapshots. The…

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…

This is the final part of videos from the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm. At the end of the first day, Professor Ted Hudson, at that time vice-president of the…

Richard Wang, director of the jazz ensemble at the University of Illinois, gave the last presentation of the first day. He talked about the 1994 revival in Chicago of Ellington’s…

The first full-scale Duke Ellington Study Group Conference was organized in May (5-7) 1983 by Chapter 90 of The Duke Ellington Society Washington D.C. . Some 90 people took part…

Dick Buckley was a well-known radio presenter in Chicago, who for many years hosted “Jazz With Dick Buckley”. One day in May 1981, he started his program by saying:  …

This time, the website publishes another tidbit from the proceedings of the Ellington Study Group conference in Stockholm May 12-15, 2004. The source is once again the Sven Eriksson’s tape…