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For many years, the jazz pianist Marian McPartland – once married to the trumpeter Jimmy McPartland – had a weekly program – “Piano Jazz” – on National Public Radio in…

Next Ellington Study Group Conference The next Ellington Study Group Conference will take place in Birmingham, England on 25-27 May 2018. The conference is organized jointly by the Royal Birmingham…

This is the last installment of presentations at the conference – at least for now. They are all presentations from its last day. Thanks to hard work by Patricia Willard…

In March 1980, Mercer Ellington visited Chicago and Dick Buckley of radio station WBEZ and an active member of the local Ellington community took the opportunity to make a long…

Here is some more from the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm. One of the afternoon presentations on the second day was by Jan Bruér. He talked about “Duke Ellington in…

The second ”goodie” for December is program 20 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…

Richard Wang, director of the jazz ensemble at the University of Illinois, gave the last presentation of the first day. He talked about the 1994 revival in Chicago of Ellington’s…

After the lunch at the Stockholm Town Hall, the conference participants enjoyed, among others a presentation by the French jazz critic and record producer Alexandre Rado on his friend Cat…

After the opening of the conference, the first morning had a very strong Swedish accent. It started with a panel talking about “Ellington in Sweden 1939”. Participants in the panel…

After almost two years of preparations, the official opening of the Ellington ’94 conference in Stockholm  took place on May 20, 1994. It was the 12th one in the series…