ELLINGTON GALAXY

On September 2, 1964, the respected CBC announcer and journalist Bryng Whittaker made an hour-long interview with Ellington to be used for an Ellington TV special which the Canadian Broadcasting…

On March 3, 1965, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired an one-hour long television program with Duke Ellington. It included sections of an interview made on September 2, 1994 and of…

The third surviving MBS broadcast (June 7, 1951) from Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook is one of the goodies in the “Goodies of the Month” section of the website. Only members can…

The month of August 1956 started with Ellington being a guest in a Frankie Laine CBS telecast. He played “Dancers in Love” and then joined Frankie Laine and the Mellowlarks…

DESS-medlemmen Ivan Sundberg var en av de många som sökte sig till Nalen för släppet av Göran Walléns bok om Arne Domnérus. Här är hans rapport. “Det var en av…

I den amerikanska nationalkaraktären, så som den återspeglas i konsten, existerar en beundran för de som protesterar mot etablissemanget och de som rör sig utanför lagens råmärken. Berättelser av denna…

With the passing away of Toots Thielemans on August 22, it seems appropriate to start our series “Interpreting Ellington” with Thieleman’s interpretations of Sophisticated Lady given together with Jaco Pastorius.…

The heritage of radio broadcasts from the late 1930s and early 1940s by Ellington and other black bands is quite small. So whatever there is, it is very valuable and…

PÅ SVENSKA Kustbandet has been around for more than 50 years. They started in 1962 as a seven piece New Orleans jazz group but soon moved on to become a…

PÅ SVENSKA Tomorrow, it is 60 years since Duke Ellington appeared on the cover of the Time Magazine and was featured in a five-page article. He himself said that it…