Michael Kilpatrick – The Magic of the early 1930s
Presentation by Michael Kilpatrick at DESS Duke Ellington 125 conference in Stockholm in 2024.
DESS Ellington 125 – A summary
DESS’ Ellinton 125 conference ended some days ago. Göran Wallén and the speakers – Jean Francois Pitet, Bjarne Busk, Samantha Wright, John Haase, Michael Kilpatrick and Marilyn Lester together with…
Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Januari 22, 1958
In Januari 1958, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra spent some time in the Gulf states from Florida to Texas. In Mississippi they performed at concerts at Keesler Air Force Base…
Buck Clayton Talks at Toronto ’87
We continue our series on presentations at the Ellington conference in Toronto in 1987. We are now in the afternoon of the fourth day of the conference and we will…
Mercer Ellington in Ellington Reflections
It was published about week ago and it s apparently the first in what should be a long series. It covers the period from 1938 to early 1940’s and the…
Portraits By Ellington
This CD was recorded by Jazz At Linc0ln Center Orchestra at a Lincoln Center concert in August 19191. JLCO was conducted by David Berger, who also had transcibed the music.…
Hertugen Fylder 75 part 2
In 1974, Danish Radio-TV celebrated his 75th birthday with a televised concert with Danish Radio Big Band and Clark Terry. We published a 30 minutes clip of it on…
On The Air from Birdland, November 1952, part 3
From a tape of uncertain origin, we offer another mixture of tunes played by Duke Ellington and his men in November 1952. Ko-Ko played at Birdland in November 1952 In…
On The Air from Birdland, 25Nov52, part 2
The entrance to Birdland in the early days Betty Roché sings Take The A Train Betty Roché‘s career started around 1940 and in 1943 she performed with Duke Ellington’s orchestra…
Alice Babs at Ellington ’87
In 1987, Alice Babs accepted to be a speaker at the 5th Ellington Study Group Conference in Toronto. It was the first of many Ellington conferences for her. It is…