ELLINGTON GALAXY

One of the outstanding presentations at the Ellington ’89 conference was the one given by Kurt Dietrich from Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin about Lawrence Brown. Dietrich was at that…

Summer issue of Blue Light The summer issue of Blue Light is available to DESUK members since a couple of weeks ago. As usual it provides some good reading. This…

Stockholm 24 January 1967, 2nd concert Rufus Jones, Duke’s new drummer in 1967 The details of the 2nd concert in Stockholm on Jan. 24, 1967, did not come to the…

Stockholm 24 January 1967, 1st concert Duke in 1967 Duke Ellington’s European tour in 1967 started in Paris on January 13 and ended in the same city on March 10.…

Bo Haufman, the Bulletin editor and President of DESS,  has delighted the DESS members by sending out the autumn issue of the DESS Bulletin quite early this year. This allow…

The third of the three programs  with Ellington material from the Mercer Ellington donation, which Danish Radio put on the air in July 1960, was broadcasted on July 23, 1990…

Concerts in Stockholm 1966 (2) Action att Cirkus in Stockholm 1966 Ella sings Duke’s “favorite” tune In contrast to the first concert from Stockholm’s Concert Hall on February 7, 1966,…

The second of the three programs  with Ellington material from the Mercer Ellington donation, which Danish Radio put on the air in July 1960, was broadcasted on July 16, 1960…

Concerts in Stockholm 1966 In our endeavor to publish Duke Ellington’s concerts in Sweden in chronological order, you will have noticed that the only surviving concert from 1965 was extensively…

Spring issue of Blue Light This issue was delayed because of the Covid 19 pandemic and reached the DESUK members in early May. It is dominated by a 12 page…