Category: Ellington ’97

The morning of the next to last day of the conference ended with a panel discussion entitled The Brittish Connection with Bill Berry, Norris Turney, Jimmy Woode as panelists and…

Brian Priestley had a heavy task at Ellington ’97. He was a presenter, a panel coordinator and a musician with his own band in the concerts at the conference. Here…

“How can we realise a definitive edition?” Jeff Lindberg had given himself the task to explain this to the conference.He also talked about this at the Ellington ’99 conference in…

Steven had of course brought with him what was “New Discoveries” at the time of Ellington ’97. As far as I can hear, he starts with the ending of take…

  The conference in Leeds became Klaus Stratemann’s last Ellington Study Group Conference. By then he had attended almost all of them and it was very very emotional in Leeds…

Jerry Valburn was the first speaker on the second day of the 1997 Ellington Study Group Conference in Leeds and he gave the audiens a very good and pedagogical presentation.…

Dave Gelly had chosen to talk about Ivie Anderson at Ellington ’97. He was a writer on jazz for The Observer’s Grammophone  and other publications,  was also a broadcaster on…

  In the afternoon of the plenary part of the conference, Bill Berry and Bob Hunt talked about The Ellington Brass Tradition. Willie Cook should also had been part of…

This is the first presentation of the conference. It was put put together by a team from the Smithsonian Institution’s Ellington Collection led by Annie Kuebler. The team included also…

The 15th Ellington Study Group Conference took place in Leeds from 22nd to 26th May 1997. It was the first conference in Europe since the one in Stockholm in 1994.…