Tag: Duke Ellington

Program 45 was broadcasted on April 29, 1991 and was produced and presented by Bjarne Busk. It is the the first “goodie” this month and is available in the ”Goodies”…

DESS Bulletin 2021-1 The first issue of the DESS Bulletin for 2021 was sent to the DESS members yesterday. Its editor, Bo Haufman has produced another ambitious issue. This time,…

In the early 1990’s Kenny Burrell participated in some Ellington conferences. The first one was Ellington ’90 in Ottawa,  where he was was an important part of the music program.…

At Ellington ’93 in New York, Kurt Dietrich did another presentation on Ellington’s trombone players. On this occasion, he talked about Juan Tizol, Ellington’s valve trombone player 1929-1944 and 1951-1953…

Today is the 80th anniversary of Ellington’s dance date in Crystal Ballroom, Fargo, North Dakota. Duke Ellington and his orchestra spent most of September, the whole of October and a…

The new issue of the DESS Bulletin has been with its subscribers = the DESS members since a week now. Its is another very good job by its longtime editor…

Kurt Dietrich continued his presentations on Ellington’s trombone players with one at Ottawa ’90 about Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton. Since the one on Lawrence Brown at Washington ’89, he had…

Summer issue of Blue Light The summer issue of Blue Light is available to DESUK members since a couple of weeks ago. As usual it provides some good reading. This…

The third of the three programs  with Ellington material from the Mercer Ellington donation, which Danish Radio put on the air in July 1960, was broadcasted on July 23, 1990…

The second of the three programs  with Ellington material from the Mercer Ellington donation, which Danish Radio put on the air in July 1960, was broadcasted on July 16, 1960…