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In the first days of January 1973, Ellington made a short trip to Paris and London to record in three telecasts. In London, he was interviewed on January 5 by…

A new set of programs  with Ellington material from the Mercer Ellington donation was put on the air by Danish Radio in the Spring of 1991. The first one was…

Stockholm 4 Nov. 1969, 1st concert Lawrence Brown plays Serenade To Sweden When Duke Ellington & his Orchestra arrived in Sweden on Nov. 4, 1969 it was nearly three years…

One of the outstanding presentations at the Ellington ’89 conference was the one given by Kurt Dietrich from Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin about Lawrence Brown. Dietrich was at that…

Stockholm 24 January 1967, 2nd concert Rufus Jones, Duke’s new drummer in 1967 The details of the 2nd concert in Stockholm on Jan. 24, 1967, did not come to the…

Stockholm 24 January 1967, 1st concert Duke in 1967 Duke Ellington’s European tour in 1967 started in Paris on January 13 and ended in the same city on March 10.…

Concerts in Stockholm 1966 (2) Action att Cirkus in Stockholm 1966 Ella sings Duke’s “favorite” tune In contrast to the first concert from Stockholm’s Concert Hall on February 7, 1966,…

Concerts in Stockholm 1966 In our endeavor to publish Duke Ellington’s concerts in Sweden in chronological order, you will have noticed that the only surviving concert from 1965 was extensively…

Gothenburg March 11, 1964 Konserthuset in Gothenburg Harry Carney in Agra On the above date, there were two concerts at Konserthuset in Gothenburg. In our previous comments on the concerts…

Duke Ellington in 1964 If there is an abundance of surviving recordings from Duke Ellington’s tours in Sweden 1963, the resulting recordings from the 1964 tour is rather meagre with…