Erik Wiedemann – Sacred Concerts
The Danish jazz journalist and Ellington researcher Erik Wiedemann was a frequent presenter at Ellington conferences in the early 1990’s. In Los Angeles, he talked about Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in…
The Danish jazz journalist and Ellington researcher Erik Wiedemann was a frequent presenter at Ellington conferences in the early 1990’s. In Los Angeles, he talked about Ellington’s Sacred Concerts in…
Man with Four Sides is one of Ellington’s theatrical projects. In Music Is My Mistress, Ellington says that he wrote it in 1955 when the band played for several weeks…
The program of the Ellington ’92 conference also included a presentation on the Mercer Ellington donation to Danish Radio. It was delivered by Erik Wiedemann, Bjarne Busk and Flemming Sjølund…
The file with the Copenhagen Sep. 30, 1959 concert made available to DESS members on Jan. 26 turns out to be something totally different. It brings together selections from Ellington’s…
The Danish bass player and radioman Erik Moseholm was another speaker on this theme. His topic was the Danish bass tradition and the inspiration of Ellington’s basists on it. He…
The 10th Ellington Study Group Conference took place in Copenhagen May 28-31, 1992. The lead organisers of the conference were Arnvid Meyer, Niels Toft and Karl Emil Knudsen – three…
The third “goodie” for September is program 17 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. As usual, it is available in…