Blue Light Spring 2015
The first issue of DESUK’s Blue Light in 2015 is now available to DESS members in the Ellington Archive. It is added to the issues of Blue Light 2011-2014 already…
Boyd Raeburn
Cab Calloway
Charlie Barnet
Count Basie
Gerry Mulligan
In English
Interpreting Ellington
Jimmy Lunceford
Interpreting Ellington 2
From Calloway to Mulligan Charlie Barnet Boyd Raeburn Gerry Mulligan Count Basie Cab Calloway Jimmie Lunceford Black Beauty Nobody really knows how…
DESS Bulletin 2015-1
Since two years has passed since its publication, the first issue of the DESS Bulletin in 2015 is now available in pdf-format to anyone interested in Duke Ellington and his…
Smått och Gott / Bits and Pieces
This time the topics of “Bits and Pieces” are the DESS-meeting last Monday, an interview with Alice Babs in Musiktidningen in 1975 about her and Ellington and some more on…
DR Ellington Broadcasts (13)
The 13th Ellington program broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s based on the Mercer Ellington donation is the third “Goodie” for the month of February. As usual, it…
Duke Ellington at Birdland, June 23, 1951
Aberdeen A little more than a week after his stay at Meadowbrook, we find Ellington and the orchestra playing at Birdland, the famous jazz spot in Manhattan. Their stay there…
DR Ellington Broadcasts (12)
The 12th Ellington program broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s based on the Mercer Ellington donation is the first “Goodie” for the month of February. As usual, it…
Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, June 1951
Willie Smith and Harold Baker are soloing in Sophisticated Lady To complete our series of broadcasts from the Meadowbrook in New Jersey, we can now present to the DESS members,…
Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, June 11, 1951
Pompton Turnpike VIP’s Boogie This article covers the MBS “Coast To Coast” broadcast with Ellington and his orchestra from Meadowbrook on June 11, 1951. The full broadcast is available to…
Bits And Pieces
Hotel Sherman CD The Ellington specialist and discographer Brian Koller reports that the correct discographical information for track 23 and 24 of the CD is: Track 23, Maybe, is DE4028xa…