John E. Hasse – Cotton Club Revues
John was one of the speakers at Ellington ’91 as he had been at many other Ellington Study Group conferences before. He had discovered many of the printed Cotton Club…
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John was one of the speakers at Ellington ’91 as he had been at many other Ellington Study Group conferences before. He had discovered many of the printed Cotton Club…
The first session of Ellington 2021 took place on April 29 in honor of the Duke’s birthday. The program for Day #1 is available here. Some 70 people from Canada,…
Duke Ellington’s monthlong tour of Europe between April 1 and May 1, 1939 took him and the orchestra to France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. They spent most…
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,…