Nutcracker Sweeties at Ellington ’97
The afternoon on Sunday 25th May ended with a talk between the choreographer David Bintley, the ballet music conductor Paul Murphy and Pete Long about Bintley’s and Murphy’s Nutcracker Sweeties …
Dissecting Midriff at Ellington ’97
This is from Sunday afternoon May 25th at Ellington ’97. The title in the program is Happy Anatomy? but the subtitle says more – Midriff dissected. For almost 45 minutes Pete…
Date with the Duke with Mel Tormé
The radio series Date with the Duke, featuring Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, was broadcast during the mid-1940s. The program originally aired on the ABC Radio Network as Your Saturday…
DESS Bulletin 2025:2
A new issue of the DESS Bulletin (2025:2) reached its readers this week. The cover artist is this time is the trombone player Julian Priester. Ken Steiner has written the…
Panel discussion at Ellington ’97
The morning of the next to last day of the conference ended with a panel discussion entitled The Brittish Connection with Bill Berry, Norris Turney, Jimmy Woode as panelists and…
Richard Wang Talks About Three Musicals at Ellington ’97
Richard Wang was an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Ensembles at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He also directed the professional Fletcher Basington Orchestra which specialised…
The Tone Parallel Is Here
About a year and a half ago I received an email from Jack Chambers with a big attachment. It was the first draft of his upcoming book A Tone Parallel…
Saturday Laughter Presented by David Hajdu
Hadju’s presentation made me interested in finding more about the show which never made it to Broadway. He writes about it in Lush Life, his book about about Billy Strayhorn.…
Two pieces by a trio
The trio with Jack Fallon, Malcolm Mitchel and Tony Crombie finished the morning of Day 2 of Ellington ’97 with swinging interpretations of Satin Doll and D0n’t Get Around Much…
Panel British Tour 1948
The second panel at Ellington ’97 was about Ellington’s Brittish Tour in 1948. Peter Newbrook chaired it and the members were Kay Davis, Gloria Nance, Jack Fallon, Malcolm Mitchell…