Category: In English

The DESS website is back after six weeks of restoration. It looks different from before but all the content from the old DESS website is there and the Internet address…

Broadcast 47 took place on 25 June, 1991. As the previous broadcast on 28 May 1991, it was produced and presented by Fleming Sjølund-Jensen. It is the the first “goodie”…

As announced last month, there will be a virtual DESS Ellington Meeting also this year. It is organized by the editor of the website on behalf of DESS and with…

Ellington turned 50 during his three weeks engagement at the Paramount Theater at Times Square in New York 20 April to 10 May 1949. There are no traces of a…

I used to call this type of articles “Smått och gott / Bits and Pieces” but I think “Ellington News-Nyheter” is more relevant and I will call them this from…

Program 46 was broadcasted on May 28, 1991. It was produced and presented by Fleming Sjølund-Jensen. It is the the first “goodie” this month and is available in the ”Goodies”…

Tonight a year comes to its end  and a new year starts. Traditionally, it is a night of celebration and festivities and the website likes to offer something special this…

Who Knows Before the summer, DESUK distributed to its members the CD Who Knows  with Brian Priestley and a small group playing “least studied and least ‘covered’ pieces” of Ellington…

24 December 2021 is the day in Sweden (and many other countries) when Santa Claus arrives with his presents. This year, Steven Lasker has joined him and given DESS and…

Full blast at the Hurricane! We follow up our series with unissued Ellington broadcasts from the Hurricane Restaurant in 1943 with two more. They are from the end of Ellington’s…