Ron Collier Speaks at Toronto ’87
Ron Collier ended the afternoon of the second day of the conference with a presentation about his collaboration with Duke Ellington. It was titled Collage, North and South of the…
Buck Clayton Talks at Toronto ’87
We continue our series on presentations at the Ellington conference in Toronto in 1987. We are now in the afternoon of the fourth day of the conference and we will…
Mercer Ellington in Ellington Reflections
It was published about week ago and it s apparently the first in what should be a long series. It covers the period from 1938 to early 1940’s and the…
Portraits By Ellington
This CD was recorded by Jazz At Linc0ln Center Orchestra at a Lincoln Center concert in August 19191. JLCO was conducted by David Berger, who also had transcibed the music.…
Hertugen Fylder 75 part 2
In 1974, Danish Radio-TV celebrated his 75th birthday with a televised concert with Danish Radio Big Band and Clark Terry. We published a 30 minutes clip of it on…
On The Air from Birdland, November 1952, part 3
From a tape of uncertain origin, we offer another mixture of tunes played by Duke Ellington and his men in November 1952. Ko-Ko played at Birdland in November 1952 In…
Jerry Valburn talks about rare recording at Ellington ’87
Jerry Valburn was part of the Ellington Study Group conferences from the very beginning and talked often about rare recordings with Ellington music and he did so at Ellington ’87 …
DESS Bulletin 2024-1
The first issue of the DESS Bulletin for 2004 was sent to DESS members a couple of days ago. A good part of it is about Duke Ellington’s upcoming 125th…
New Issue of Blue Light
Thank you to Gareth Evans for putting together another 50 pages issue of Blue Light with a lot to read. It is the Winter 2023/2024 issue or (Volume 30:3). It…
Ellington Reflections on Shorty Baker and Jimmy Jones
Since I last wrote about Ellington Reflections on the website, Steven has managed to publish two new posts. One about Shorty Baker and one about Jimmy Jones. Even if I…