Category: Herb Jeffries

A highlight of the second day was another nightly concert. This time it was Bob Wilber and the Ellington ’88 Orchestra that took the stage and they did so to…

The Ellington Study Group Conference in Oldham, England in 1985 was apparently very special. Roger Boyes was there and he says that “the spirit it generated was quite magical”. As…

In mid-October last year, the DESS website presented the first Ellington Study Group Conference, which took place in Washington D.C. in May 1983. Six years later the conference was back…