Ellington Meeting 2022
Following up the success of the Ellington Meeting 2021, DESS and DESScafé have decided to organise another virtual conference for Duke Ellington aficionados and experts next year. It will take…
Broadcasts from The Hurricane Restaurant 1943 part 3
Full blast at the Hurricane! We follow up our series with unissued Ellington broadcasts from the Hurricane Restaurant in 1943 with two more. They are from the end of Ellington’s…
Smått & Gott/Bits & Pieces Dec 2021-1
Blue Light 2021-2 It reached the DESUK members quite some time. The issue is the last one put together by Patrick Olsen and he has made sure that he marks…
DESScafé 1 nov. 2021
Den här gången kom de trogna kafébesökarna till kaféet för att höra om och lyssna till musik spelad av Cat Anderson. Programmet hade satts samman av Leif Jönsson – stor…
DESS Bulletin 2021-3
The fall issue of the DESS Bulletin should have arrived in the mailbox of DESS members by now. As usual, it provides a lot of good reading contributed by Bulletin…
Ellington 2021 – Jack Chambers
Jack Chambers was also among the presenters on the fourth and last day of Ellington 2021. He is currently in the early stages of working on another book on Ellington…
Ellington 2021 – Brian Priestley
Brian is a man full of knowledge about jazz and among other things about Duke Ellington. When he was asked to make a presentation to Ellington 2021, he thought a…
Ellington 2021 – Jan Bruér
Jan Bruér – Swedish jazz critic and writer, record producer and DESS member – was one of the speakers on the last day of Ellington 2021. Back in 1960’s, he…
Ellington 2021 – Michael Kilpatrick
Michael Kilpatrick – baritone saxophonist and orchestra leader – was one of the speakers on the second day of Ellington 2021. He is also a recognized transcriber of Duke Ellington’s…
Ellington 2021 – Loren Schoenberg
Loren Schoenberg – founder of and senior scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem – provided the first presentation on the third day of Ellington 2021. He is also…