From Facebook 17 Aug 2023
Just some snapshots from today’s visit to Facebook. But there are of course much more! Duke Ellington Group Duke Ellington Society Group Cootie Williams Group In his Ellington Live, Ian…
Duke at Château de Goutelas – The Documentary
Duke’s visit to Château de Goutelas in February 1966 must have been one of the most important events in his life. He experienced things that did not talk so much…
Clark Terry at North Sea Jazz Festival 1979
Clark Terry – Ellington’s fabulous trumpter for most of the 1950’s – is certainly an important star in the Ellington Galaxy. Here are three songs that Terry performed with his…
Ellington in Order Vol 3
It became available today on social media (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Qobuz and Tidal). Most are RCA-Vicor recordings available in the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition Box plus some Columbia, Brunswick…
Rendez-Vous avec Jean Sablon and Duke Ellington Dec. 23 1960
Duke Ellington spent roughly a month in Paris from early December 1960 to early January 1961 together with Billy Strayhorn to work on Paris Blues. They had started to do…
Alice Babs in Ottawa 1990
Alice Babs was featured at the 1990 Duke Ellington Study Group Conference in Ottawa both as a speaker and as a soloist with Andrew Homzy’s Jazz Orchestra. Here is a…
From Ellington 2023 concert
Many mobile phones shot videos at the Ellington 2023 concert at Le Bal Blomet on April 30. Carl Woideck was one of them. Here are his two videos merged into…
Happy Birthday to Johnny Hodges
We are late in wishing Johnny Hodges Happy Birthday but it has taken some time to find this photo from Dans In at Gröna Lund in Stockholm in June 1963.…
An Ellington Galaxy
The DESS website is back after six weeks of restoration. It looks different from before but all the content from the old DESS website is there and the Internet address…
Blue Light Spring 2023
The 2023 Spring issue has reached the DESUK members. It is another issue with a lot of good reading put together by Gareth Evans. The new issue has another long…