ELLINGTON GALAXY

Taft Jordan is cover boy in the new issue. Bo Haufman has written the four page article. It covers of course Jordan’s period with Chick Webb and Duke but the…

Also on 7 February, the fourth day of Ellington’s concert tour of Sweden was going to be hectic. It started after lunch with the rehearsals  for the concert part of…

After Helsinki, Ellington and the orchestra went to Stockholm where they were going to have a busy period.  On 6 February, they played  two evening concerts  at the Stockholm Concert…

After Lund, the next day Ellington and the band went to Gothenburg (Göteborg) for two concerts at Gothenburg Concert Hall (Göteborgs Konserthur. The first tok place at 7:00 pm and…

In 1963, Duke Ellington visited Sweden twice. The first visit was in early February and the second in June. The February visit was part of a long tour organised by…

In early June, I published Bjarne Busk‘s presentation  on the Ellington Stockpile in Denmark at the DESS Ellington 125 conference. The filming of the presentation had its problems and since…

The postman delivered the Spring 2024 (Volume 31.1) issue in my mailbox almost a month ago but there has been no time for me to write about until now. It…

After more than 6 months of waiting, Ellington In Order Volume 8 is finally available. It covers the period from May 14 to October 26 1937. Most of it are…

In late Spring, Storyville Records issued a CD with Ellington’s two concerts in Copenhagen on Nov. 7, 1958 plus recordings from his visit to Denmark in 1950. It is a…

The new issue has of course the DESS Ellington 125 mini conference in Stockholm on April 29, 2024 as a particular focus. Bo Haufman gives a two page summary of…