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In their conference folders, the participants in Ellington ’89 found an invitation to a very special event. The Washington jazz broadcaster and Ellington aficionado Felix Grant had spent a lot…

Ellington ’18 in Birmingham Finally, information on the presentations to be made at the conference is starting to become available. Among them are: Jack Chambers: Celebration, Duke Ellington’s Lost Symphony…

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The second day of the conference ended with a concert by Doug Richard’s Great American Music Ensemble. It provided the audience with “A Panorama of Ellington’s Music From The Late…

The second issue of the DESS Bulletin is on its way to the DESS members and some might already have got it in their mailboxes. It is an issue with…

The second day of the conference also had a very full program. and the President of Chapter 90 of the Ellington Society, Terrell Allen,  guided the audience through it with…

The report from Ellington ’89 that appeared in the 1989-3 issue of the DEMS Bulletin, says “that visitors from abroad appreciated the Smithsonian all-day as ideal”. For most of them,…

The Ellington Conference in Birmingham There is still no website for the conference but  it seems for sure that it will take place. The facility for buying conference tickets is…

Following the very successful and almost legendary Ellington ’88 conference in Oldham, England, the Ellington Study Group Conference returned to Washington D.C. for its 7th edition. It took place on…

The fourth ”goodie” for March is program 23 in the Duke Ellington series broadcasted by the Danish Radio in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The broadcast is available in the…