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…
Ellington 2021 – John E. Hasse
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,…
Ellington in Europe 1939
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…
7th Ellington Conference
Ellington Study Group Conference
In English
John E. Hasse
Mark Tucker
Patricia Willard
Ellington ’89 in Washington D.C. (3)
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,…