Category: Ellington Study Group Conference

On June 26-27 1959, Duke Ellington appeared at a four-day jazz festival in Tamiment-In-The-Poconos, Pennsylania. Here he presented a new fourteen-minute work called Idiom ’59. One week later, on July…

Next DESS meeting It takes place on Monday September 17 at Franska Skolan in Stockholm. The doors open at 17:00. Bo Lindström, well-known international author and specialist on early jazz,…

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 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…

Ellington Study Group Conference May 25-27, 2018 Even if there is still no official announcement, it seems that the 25th Ellington Study Group Conference will take place in England or…

Next Ellington Study Group Conference The next Ellington Study Group Conference will take place in Birmingham, England on 25-27 May 2018. The conference is organized jointly by the Royal Birmingham…

Here is some more from the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm. One of the afternoon presentations on the second day was by Jan Bruér. He talked about “Duke Ellington in…

After the lunch at the Stockholm Town Hall, the conference participants enjoyed, among others a presentation by the French jazz critic and record producer Alexandre Rado on his friend Cat…