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Sites focused on Ellington himself

“If I die tomorrow, I’ll consider I’ve been successful because when I began to study music it was with the idea of being in that band." - Paul Gonsalves, tenor sax.

"I enjoyed every day I was a member of the Ellington band, even though it was gruelling trying to keep up with Duke.  But I knew I was a part of something that was very special, something that would never die.  But the biggest joy I had, and I think the other musicians had too, was the music.  Duke constantly surprised me.  Musically, I could never predict what was going on in Duke's head." -Russell Procope, reeds

• A Duke Ellington Panorama
  Peter MacHare's comprehensive Ellington site - one of the first major Ellington-focused websites I discovered, and deserves to be one of the first ones you look at. DEPanorama now hosts the DEMS Bulletin. If you wish to locate a particular item in the DEMS Bulletins,you can search only the DEMS Bulletin webpages using Google with this added to your search command: site:http://depanorama.net/DEMS. For example, to find information on Flippant Flurry you would use this search string: Flippant Flurry site:http://depanorama.net/DEMS.
  - updated Sept 5 2008



• Rude Interlude, a Duke Ellington home page
  Comprehensive Duke Ellington website by Robb Holmes - this too was one of my first major Ellington-focused website discoveries. Deserves to be one of the first ones you look at.
  - link updated 20051127



• INTERVIEWS - 1958 interviews
  DEMS Bulletin: Steve Voce's transcriptions of (1) a wide-ranging 1958 Ellington BBC interview conducted by Charles Melville and (2) another conducted by Johnny Dankworth and Humphrey Lyttelton.
    - added  2011-08-04



• A Cold from Little Eddie
  Steve Voce writes about the evening he spent with Duke and his band during and after a winter concert in Liverpool in 1963
    Contributed by Steve Voce - added  2011-07-26



• Duke Ellington's America
  Brief review of Harvey G. Cohen's book in The Guardian
   added 2012-01-10



• Reprint of a San Francisco Chronicle article from 1961 describing Duke's demeanour and proposing he be appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
    Contributed by Tom Reney in Duke-LYM- added  2011-07-10



• Remembering a Giant
  Brief article from Ebony, April, 1999
  added  2010-11-15



• Mapping the African American Past
  Brief article on Ellington from Curriculum Concepts International, with a few images and two lesson plans.
  added  2010-11-15



• Associated Press
  Assorted press photographs of Ellington
  added  2010-11-15



• Wikipedia (Germany)
  German language Wikipedia page. Use http://translate.google.com/ to read it.
  - added  2010-11-07



• Duke Ellington 1899-1974 Biographie, Biografie. Zum 100
  This appears to be a fairly comprehensive German-language biography on a Swiss website from 1999. Use http://translate.google.com/ to read it.
  - added  2010-11-07



• Jazz @ Lincoln Center
  "Fine tributes to the greats, including Duke Ellington. Fine selection of photos, such as Duke on a bicycle in Amsterdam - 1939, with Fred Guy & Jimmie Blanton (1939), Duke & Billy smoking in Paris (1960) and with Russel Procope and Sam Woodyard (1966). Unfortunately, no pictures of the 'Great Paris Concert', which Nesuhi produced. Also, some nice quizzes." - Also listen to the Jukebox on the Ellington page.
    Loek Hopstaken in Duke-LYM- added  2010-06-20



• Duke Ellington, by Victoria Yates
  Brief biography on a website devoted to leadership.
    - added  2010-06-13



• Remembering Duke Ellington
  5 minute documentary in which granddaughter Mercedes talks about her grandfather - some film clips and music included.
   - added  2010-05-22



• Duke Ellington early 1930: the Year of the Depression
  Hans Koert's Keep Swinging blog in English and Dutch
   - added  2010-05-22



• Gennett
  Brief quasi-biographical summary of Ellington's appearance on the Gennett label.
  - added 2010-04-11



• Duke Ellington Itinerary
  Ellington itinerary in the Library of Congress webpages. I couldn't see any author credit or date of publication but Sjef Hoefsmit tells me:
  'This Itinerary is created by Joe Igo and after his death the work was continued by Gordon Ewing and Art Pilkington. After Gordon died, Art gave access to the Itinerary to Ken Vail. Art also died. The widow and the son of Gordon presented the Itinerary to the Library of Congress. Since that day I have sent DEMS Bulletins to the Library to make it possible for them to update the Itinerary as much as new facts were published in DEMS Bulletins. I have never heard a single word from the Library."
   - added  2010-03-20



• Ask the Experts: Phil Haynes on Duke Ellington
  Bucknell University's "Ask the Experts" asked Phil Haynes, jazz artist in residence at Bucknell, about Ellington's legacy   - added  2010-03-15



• New York Times - Times Topics Duke Ellington
  Brief summary of Ellington's life and key recordings, together with links to Times articles about Ellington.
    - added  2010-03-15



• Ellingtonia.Com
  Marcus Girvan's new website dedicated to Duke Ellington and his world. Includes Discography, Titles, Musicians and Time Line pages so far.
    Contributed by M. Girvan - added  20100110



• Duke Ellington: Our Greatest Composer - by Grover Sales
  Short article tracing the development of Ellington's musical life. Not a biography per se. Arne Neegaard calls this a great article from a great jazz site:
    Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  2009-06-26



• Duke Ellington – Model Of Leadership
  Mosaic Records Jazz Video Cafe has a large collection of jazz related video clips on YouTube. This one is a documentary of less than 6 minutes about Ellington. The blurb reads "A terrific short documentary of Duke Ellington as band leader with appearances by Ben Webster, Willie The Lion Smith, Clark Terry and Duke himself among others." Much of it is seen elsewhere, but it's a good compilation.
    -added  20091206



• 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington develops the 'jungle sound'
  John Fordham's blog entry in The Guardian.co.UK MusicBlog. Includes a link to "Creole Rhapsody" to illustrate the jungle music style.
    - added  20091111



• An Evening With Edward Kennedy Ellington
  Journalist Playthell Benjamin reminisces about an evening he spent in Ellington's home in the early 1970s.
    - added  2009-10-18



• The Genesis of Black, Brown and Beige
  A study of the origins of Ellington's extended concert work by Mark Tucker, published in Black Music Research Journal in 2002.
    Found as a result of Michael Palmer's referral in Duke LYM- added  20091004



• 'The Duke' and His Place in Jazz History
  New York Times article by Leonard Feather, published December 17, 1944, promoting Ellington's third Carnegie Hall concert.
    Contributed by Agustín Pérez through Duke-LYM - added  2009-08-31



• Duke Ellington 1899-1974
  This page is in Norwegian. You can translate it using Google if you don't read that language.
    - added  20090612



• Store Norske Leksikon - Duke Ellington bio
  This page is also in Norwegian. You can translate it using Google if you don't read that language.
    - added  20090612



• Tony Bennett's portrait of Duke Ellington
  In honor of the 110th birthday of Duke Ellington, the U.S. National Portrait Gallery unveiled a portrait of the composer by his friend and fellow musician Tony Bennett, an accomplished painter.
    - thanks to Jo Kloprogge in Duke LYM - added  20090609



• Duke Ellington: Symphony of the Body and Soul
  Raul d'Gama Rose's essay on AllAboutJazz.com about the first time he encountered Ellington, in New Delhi in 1963, and how Ellington's music changed his life. Mr. Rose writes at length about the qualities of Ellington's music.
    - added  20090404



• Ellington Writes of Race
  JazzStudiesOnline: Review of Barry Ulanov's biography of Ellington that appeared in Ebony Magazine in January 1946. It summarizes Ulanov's account of the racial obstacles Ellington and his musicians faced and their various strategies for transcending them. Includes some great photos. The PDF file has the two pages out of order - read the bottom page first.
    - added  20090307



• Jump for Joy and Black, Brown, and Beige
  JazzStudiesOnline: Chapters 17 and 18 of Barry Ulanov's biography of Ellington, reviewing these two major Ellington works. Well worth reading.
    - added  20090307



• "Mr. Smith, in Madison, black people can't stay in hotels."
  Wisconsin State Journal, Friday March 6, 2009. A short account of Ellington's appearance at the Memorial Union in the 1950s and his 1970s visits.
    - added  20090307



• Ellington in Private
  Producer Irving Townsend's insightful 1975 article in Atlantic Monthly about Ellington, starting with their first record contract, discussed under the stage at the Newport 1956 jazz festival. An excerpt: "...At the first recording session for A Drum Is A Woman, I was introduced to this Ellington style. As the hour for the recording approached, one man, Harry Carney, was in his chair in the sax section. Carney's place in the Ellington hierarchy was second to none, but Harry just could not be late. During the next hour Russell Procope, another veteran with a penchant for promptness, arrived to sit beside Carney..."
   - added  20080827



• Large-Scale Jazz
  Francis Davis' article in the August 1987 Atlantic Monthly about jazz, includes a discussion of Ellington's music and his influence on other composers. "... if one accepts the premise that composition is the key element in jazz in the 1980s, the decade's central figure is not any of these but Duke Ellington, who died in 1974. Ellington's influence has never been greater. Typed as a "jazz" composer only by circumstance of race, he spent his career chafing at the restrictions of jazz..."
   - added  20080827



• Built Pieces
  David Schiff begins this January 1995 Atlantic Monthly article with the subheading "Like Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington was a brilliant assembler of other people's music." He explores this concept and compares Ellington to other composers as well, including Stravinsky. While his subject matter could be boring, he uses his journalistic skill to keep our attention: "'Cotton Tail,' ... builds to an explosive frenzy through a calculated mixture of expectation and surprise. There are six statements ... and five of them contain a land mine. After a series of increasingly energized swerves and surprises, the final phrase of the final chorus repeats the opening tune -- just once, with no padding or extension--and then it's over. Stunned by the elegant succinctness..."
   - added  20080827



• Ellington Comes Out Ahead in Coin Tossup
  Washington Post article - the outcome of the coin debate.
   - added  20080817



• The D.C. Quarter: A Brief For The Duke
  The debate about putting DE on the District of Columbia quarter coin.
    Contributed by Larry Crawford (Duke LYM) - added  20080511



• Disneyland, Easter week, 1974
  I happened across this blogpost of a poster from Disneyland, April 1974. Duke would not have played this gig, as he was already terminally ill in hospital , but the band may have been there.
    - added  20070307



• Jazz Greats - Duke Ellington
  PBS notes
    - added  20080302



• DUKE ELLINGTON Biography
  Biographical sketch.
    - added  20080224



• Ellington 101, A Beginner's Guide
  Exactly what its title suggests, this is a 20 page illustrated PDF file published by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
    - added  20080224



• Biographie de Duke Ellington
  Biographical sketch (en français)
    - added  20080224



• True Reformer.
  Great shot of the Ellington mural on the side of the True Reformer Hall, taken from across the street
    - added  20080224



• My Google Maps: Duke Ellington And The 1930 Census .
  Blogger Sol Bellel shows the location of Ellington's homes in Harlem, including his entry in the 1930 census.
   - added  20080224



• Ellington at the Hurricane.
  Gordon Parks' photo of Duke descending from the ceiling of the Hurricane cabaret, playing his medley. This fascinating shot gives a glimpse of the showmanship ever present in Mr. Ellington and his band. They entertained while they made great music. The URL is long and may be quirky. If the link doesn't work go to and click on the first thumbnail. John Verity points out that this page actually offers many fotos of Duke and Orch. members and what's more, it's only one of many pages of Gordon Parks' fotos of Duke and Orch. There are links at the bottom that lead to more such pages.
    - added  20080208 - updated 20090405



• Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington
• Duke Ellington Part 2
  Australian sound engineer and broadcaster Robert Parker (d.2004)who developed a system to extracting high quality sound from early mono 78s. His collection forms the basis for 'Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo' on New Orleans Radio. The two Ellington links are half hour broadcasts featuring some of the best Ellington recordings, with stereo effect. The sound is lovely although I hear some distortion - it may just be my headphones. The website says the programs are encoded in RealPlayer format, but they play for me with Windows Media Player and Marcus Girvan says they play in ITunes as well. Bill Egan pointed out the site on Duke-LYM. Arne Neegaard comments "DE-Part 2 is remarkable, I have never heard a finer version of "Concerto For Cootie" etc. Fake stereo is a bit misleading, what Parker did was to re-record a "new" version by using to 78´s played back with a small shift in time... The piano sounds a bit odd, but for the orchestra it works!" The first program includes recordings by other bands as well, including Chick Webb, Cab Calloway and Jimmy Lunceford in their Cotton Club days.
    Contributed by Bill Egan - added  20080207, updated 20080914



• Duke on the Web
  Bernard Villiers of Boulonge has created this excellent French language Ellington website. If you don't read French, you can either use Google's translation feature, or copy the text into Google's translation tool.
    - added  20080207



• Ellington the entertainer
  Page 6 of the 1980/1 DEMS Bulletin has a 1944 Down Beat article about Duke's showmanship.
    - added  20071230



• Advent Calendar - Duke Ellington
  Brief bio by Mary Burslem, with YouTube clip.
    - added  20071204



• Jazz Standards History - Biography: Duke Ellington
  Short bio by Sandra Burlingame, with links to information about some of the compositions that became standards.
    Contributed by Michael Palmer on DukeLYM- added  20071122 updated 20080914 (Marcus Girvan)



• Duke Ellington in Gibbs Magazine
  Short biography by Susan Robertson, with links to pages with his recordings.
   - added  20071105



• Swedish Jazz Collection photos
  Several photos of Ellington and his men in Sweden and their autographs are included in this collage - the trombonists come complete with recorded music. Note at least one error - Nanton could not have been in Sweden in the 1950s, since he died in 1946. Nevertheless there are photos here of: Bellson; Ellington, Nance, Brown, Nanton, Tizol, Hodges (autograph only), Stewart, Terry (autograph ony), Jimmy Woode.
   - added  20071105



• Ellington, the Duke of Musical Royalty
  Washington Post tribute to Ellington, by Patrice Gaines. A somewhat more insightful view of the man than many Ellington bios on the web, i.e.: "We didn't know [Ellington] because he didn't say anything to us. He seemed lost in thought. I understood later that he was always thinking about music. Being very young and very unsophisticated, I opened my mouth and said what some people only thought. 'You're a very private and lonely man,' I told him once. He bristled, said, 'Oh,' but he settled down and dealt with the comment, too. A line of open communication started between us."
   - added  20071105



• A Duke Ellington Panorama Victor Smart Set P-85
  Album cover from a Victor "Smart Set" reissue collection that came out in the mid-1940s, with details of the records in the set.
    - added  20071103



• Finger snapping
  Michael Leddy's blog, quoting Duke's little finger-snapping speech from a concert in 1969.
  added 20071021



• Ellington with Spike Jones
  Duke playing violin!
  Photographs from Jet Magazine of Ellington meeting Spike Jones and his wife Helen Greco backstage at Hollywood's Crescendo Club and playing a violin for Doris Duke in Los Angeles
    - added  20070903



• Duke fixing his tie in mirror
  Image of Ellington. This site has photos of many musicians, film stars, etc.
    - added  20070903



• Activemusician.com
  Ellington Biography with links. This music retailer's site also has a page to order Ellington sheet music for various instrument combinations and voices.
   - added  20070825



• Duke Ellington in Australia 1970
  Florence Mills' biographer Bill Egan has collected news stories about Ellington's 1970 appearances in Australia, in 1970, which he describes as three whirlwind one-nighters.
    Contributed by Bill Egan- added  20070824



• Jazzin aatelia Iltatähdessä – Duke Ellingtonin haastattelu
  Short English language video interview of Ellington in Sweden in 1973, and I believe it's on a Finnish broadcaster's website. In telling Duke-LYM about it, Loren Schoenberg wrote "This may be a new find, or maybe not, but it's quite frank." The video is very slow to download and open, but on a high speed connection, shouldn't take more than two or three minutes.
    Contributed by Loren Schoenberg - added  20070806



• The night 'The Duke' played in Lovell
  Short newspaper article in The Lovell Chronicle, Lovell, Wyoming about a concert in the "LDS Stake House", May 7, 1954. Note this is consistent with, but not listed, in Stratemann.
  - added  20070725



• Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"
  Bill Munger's brief but comprehensive biography of Duke. Includes a photo of Ellington rehearsing at Royal Albert Hall, London in 1967, and if you click on the "Index" link at the bottom, you'll find a rare photo of Ellington with Percy Grainger.
    ___- added  20070723



• Remembering Duke Ellington's 105th Birthday
  The Tavis Smiley Show, April 30, 2004 · NPR's Allison Keyes remembers the man who once said, "I live with music." NPR online broadcast.
    - added  20070527



• Duke Ellington bio-chronology
  Major events in Ellington's life and development in the ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes site.
  - added  20070504



• Biography.com
  Short biography, with a link to a list of works, and a link to a short biographical note on Hodges.
  - added  20070504



• Biographie, Biografie - Deutsch
  This appears to be a fairly lengthy German biography of Duke. I don't read the language so I can't describe it any better than that.
  - added  20070427



• Dapper Duke & Gunman Glen
  Bill Gottlieb's brief article about his dressing room photo of Duke. Compares Duke and Glen Gray. This site is the Jazz Photos site featuring stories and photos of jazz artists, including Ellington.
  Contributed by Ed Gottlieb- added  20070425



• Duke Ellington Starring in “The Evolution of Jazz”
  Short bio by David Kunstek, including info about who joined the band and when. Some editorial licence and factual errors. I wouldn't rely on this page, but it's an interesting perspective.
  - added  20070406



• Ellington by Dylan Nelson
  Biography by 11 year old Dylan Nelson, published on the Berman Music Foundation Jazz website.
  added  20070406



• Ellington quotes
  Another compilation of Ellington quotations, on About.com's Afro-American history site.
  - added  20070406



• The Life of Duke Ellington
  Terrance Walker video biography - high school project found on YouTube. A narrative bio, then recording of Take the A Train. It's more of a slide show with narrative and music, than a film, but worth watching.
  - added  20070401



• Duke Ellington by Piero Scaruffi
  Scholar traces Ellington's musical career
    -added  20070319



• 1963 Swedish Television interview
  Ellington interviewed i English by Sven Lindahl for Swedish Television 1963-02-03. It's a little hard to access, but it will be worth it. "Members of DESS know this already from Nr 1 this year of our Bulletin and now it is time for you to hear this wonderful 1963 intervju by Duke. I will try to guide you through:
  "Open up www.svt.se".You will see the first page headline "Innehåll A-Ö" Ignore that and instead look at the upper, right corner that says Logga in just go to the white square space with the word "sök..."
  In this space type "Duke Ellington" and then click on the square that says "sök". As a reward for your efforts, up comes a page with the headline Sökresultat containing the files "Duke Ellington del 1 (part 1) and Duke Ellington del 2 (part 2)" These are live video feeds, and you may find it pauses while your audio buffers reload.
    contributed by Sven Eriksson - added  20070310



• Super Hero EDWARD "DUKE" ELLINGTON
  The Black Collegian Online 35th Anniversary webpage has a short biography credited to Great African Americans
    - added  20070223



• Duke Ellington -the supremacy of swing
  Essay adapted from Clive James' Cultural Amnesia, a re-examination of intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who helped shape the 20th century. This essay has attracted some discussion in the Duke-LYM email discussion list.
    - added  20070216



• SoundJunction.org
  Short multipage biography of Duke, with lots of very short sound clips. Page through the site using the next and previous buttons but also check out the links in the sidebar to get his earlier history.
   - added  20070201



• Duke Ellington's picture on a billboard in Seoul. 2003
  Jo Ann Sterling writes "The above is a great picture of Duke Ellington, exhibited in Seoul, on James Newton's site in the photo gallery section." - go to the "pictures" tab, click through to page 10 to see a poster of Duke in a shop window.
    Contributed by Jo Ann Sterling - added  20070201



• Enjoying the Shadow: An Examination of the Expanding Scope of Racial and Cultural Themes in Duke Ellington's Music
  Professor Tom Zlabinger's leads off his 2005 IAJE presentation with"... Ellington thought of all his music as "Negro folk music" and hoped it would be remembered as telling the story of his people:..."
    - added  20060105



• The Tragedy Of Duke Ellington, The 'Black Prince Of Jazz'
  John Hammond's blistering attack, in Down Beat, November 1, 1935, on Ellington's music. This article can also be read in Mark Tucker's The Duke Ellington Reader.
    - added  20061231



• A Black Genius in a White Man's World
  Unattributed Down Beat article from July 1, 1936, discussing his early career, philosophy of life, music, etc. Valuable in that it was written during Duke's early career,rather than posthumously, and quotes him contemporaneously.
    - added  20061231



• The Robert Farnon Society - Journal into Melody
  There is a brief mention here of Adelaide Hall and Duke Ellington, including an example of Duke's ability to impress himself on a lady's memory.
   - added  20061231



• My experiences with my old pal Duke Ellington..
  Bruce Swedien: "I recorded the Ellington Band several times ... The one group of sessions that stands out in my memory are a few days of work with the Ellington Band starting Thursday, November 29, 1962. As you can see from the following, Duke Ellington made quite an impression on this young 25 year-old Scandinavian kid from Minnesota. I can close my eyes and see him walking into the studio. He..."  
  If the font is too small, the same material can be read here. The recordings from Nov 29 1962 were on Reprise Rep R-6168 Will the Big Bands Ever Come Back and Atlantic's Reflections of the Big Band Era (released posthumously). Personnel were
  Trumpets: Cootie Williams, Roy Burrowes; Ray Nance, Trombones: Buster Cooper, Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors
  Reeds: Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney; Piano:Duke Ellington, Bass: Ernie Shepard, Drums: Sam Woodyard.
    - added  20061223



• Thomas Fleming's 20th Century: IN THE BLACK WORLD
  Max Millard has kindly given me permission to web-publish Chapter 6 of his book, in which Fleming discusses the development of evolution of jazz, with a section on Duke. The Fleming links, below, drew from this, I believe. Mention is made of other Ellingtonians as well.
    Contributed by Max Millard and Bill Egan added 20061213



• From Cabaret To A Record Artist At 28
  Short article in Baltimore's "Afro-American Ledger" April 16, 1927
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20061126



• Ellington's draft card (1918)
  Mike Meddings and his colleagues have collected images of the draft cards of musicians, including Edward Kennedy Ellington's Draft Registration card with short text by Howard Rye.
    Contributed by Bill Egan - added  20061126
  updated 20080914 Marcus Girvan



• Ellington bio
  African Studies - State University of New York at Albany. At the bottom of this page it says "Excerpted from http://www.ilinks.net/~holmesr/ellington-bio.htm", but appears to be pretty much just a copy. Mr. Holmes' page says "Oxford University Press has reissued The Duke Ellington Reader, edited by Mark Tucker, in trade paperback format. The following, detailed biographical notes are taken from Mr. Tucker's introductions to the main sections of this book."
   - added  20061119



• Ellington special for the Spanish jazz website Tomajaz
  Agustín Pérez of Madrid is coordinating an Ellington special for Spanish jazz website Tomajazz(www.tomajazz.com). This special comprises original chronological and/or thematic articles on Ellington's music, a selected and commented CD discography, translations into Spanish of previously published outstanding articles and interviews, an Ellington Gallery, etc. As of mid-November 2006 this Spanish language site has the first part of the EKE entry in Donald Clarke's "Encyclopaedia of Popular Music,"-a 1958 interview with Ellington,an Eddie Lambert article "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", including a discographical addendum with all the recorded versions of DaCiB released on CD. Many more items will come in December 2006 and through 2007.
    Contributed by Agustín Pérez- added  20061116



• Jazz paintings - Duke Ellington
  Painting of Duke by Bozidar Milinovic, with brief article by the painter. Bozidar Milinovic, known among friends and painters also as "Mr Jazz", is a unique Croatian jazz painter who primarily paints portraits of legendary jazz, blues, soul and rock musicians.
    - added  20061104



• The Immortal Duke Ellington
  Brief article in Essence, May, 1999 by Patricia Spears Jones
    - added  20061104



• Reminiscing with Duke
  Ellington writes in the August 1, 1942 edition of The Baltimore Afro-American about performing for the Royal Family, ordering hamburgers in Hamburg and the origin of Jump For Joy. Immediately above the Ellington article is an announcement that Ivie Anderson is leaving the band.
    Contributed by Arne Neegaard- added  20061104



• Biography at MyStrands
  Ellington biography from Encyclopedia of Popular Music and a link to a Hodges album.
  added 20061021



• The Jazz Column 10
  In this early column, circa 1992, Michael Ullman describes his first Ellington concert, near Boston in the mid-1960s, and his encounter with the great man himself. He includes discussion of the Ellington books by Mark Tucker and John Hasse then writes about Ellington, before discussion of several other jazz musicians and their recordings.
  Contributed by Michael Ullman- added 20061009



• The Jazz Column 41
  Michael Ullman explores Ellington and many of his recordings released on compact disc, including reviews of the CDs produced by Phil Schaap of Black Brown and Beige and the 1956 Newport concert. The article ends by discussing tribute albums.
  Contributed by Michael Ullman- added 20061009



• The Jazz Column 57
  In the first half of his third Ellington column for Fanfare Magazine,Michael Ullman explores Ellington's collaboration with Strayhorn. The article also discusses Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw and Japanese pianist-composer Satoko Fujii and releases by other contemporary musicians.
  Contributed by Michael Ullman- added 20061009



• Ellington on TioCom
  TioCom's encyclopedia entry about Ellington, in Portuguese, from Brazil. Thanks to Jens Frese in Denmark for identifying the language for me.
   - added 2006 09 10 (modified 2007-02-21)



• Ellington awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
  The late Renee Diamond, a friend of Duke's for over 40 years, writes briefly around the event.
    Contributed by Earl "Spats" Okin- added   20060910



• History Wired
  Ellington's development
    - added 20060910



• Great Song Stylists - Duke Ellington
  Short notes about Ellington. Includes 3 nice photos including one that is autographed, and a link to a page with downloadable recordings.
    - added 20060829



• "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" - Big Band Library.com
  In this article by Chris Popa, singer Herb Jeffries discusses his career with Ellington, but the primary focus is on Ellington and the band.
    - added 20060829



• Leadership Lessons from the Jazz Masters
  In this article on Harvard's site, John Edward Hasse discusses the leadership skills of the jazz masters, including Duke Ellington. "This kind of collaboration worked in part because everyone in the band was pushing towards the same goalpost — creating fresh new music — and because, by and large, they weren’t fighting over credit and recompense. They were working for the combined good and mutual benefit of the organization as a whole." This PDF document can also be viewed in HTML here
    - added 20060829



• Echoes of Ellington
  Tom Reney describes his first exposure to Ellington's music.
    Contributed by Tom Reney- added 20060829



• Ellington's New England
  Tom Reney's essay/column about Ellington's ties to Boston.
    Contributed by Tom Reney- added 20060829



• Early Reflections On Seeing the DEO & Other Artists, Pittsburgh, 1958-1961
  Frank Rubolino writes about the first time he saw Ellington's band, and other performers as well.
    Contributed by Arne Neegarrd- added 20060826



• Duke Ellington notes in "Schlagzeug"
  Three anecdotes from the German jazz magazine
    Contributed by Wolfram Knauer- added 20060805



• Blowin' Hot and Cool - Jazz and Its Critics
  Starting by introducing a young Leonard Feather, this article by John Gennari describes John Hammond and his influence on jazz, discusses the Ellington/Hammond rift in detail, and winds up summarizing Ellington's approach to racism through his music.
    Contributed by Arne Neegaard in Duke-LYM - added 20060805



• Ellington playing
  Gottlieb photo of Duke performing at the Aquarium, October 1946. Also here  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington and Greer on stage
  Gottlieb photo of Duke and Sonny performing at the Aquarium, October 1946.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington and Reinhardt at the Aquarium
  Gottlieb photo of Duke and Django at the piano at the Aquarium, late October 1946. Reinhardt was to become part of Ellington's "concert troupe" at the end of the month. Also here. Stratemann says Reinhardt arrived in New York by plane on Oct 30 and was feted with a welcoming party thrown by Ellington and the Morris Agency. Since the Aquarium gig ended that day, and Ellington played Atlantic City on Oct 31, these photos must have been taken Oct 30, 1946.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington in 1941
  William P. Gottlieb's photo of Ellington and others at Gottlieb's home, "Maryland, 1941." Since the dates on the Gottlieb site are sometimes ambiguous, I wonder if this photo was taken at the time of the visit mentioned here, even though the article says 1940.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington at the Zanzibar
  Gottlieb portrait of Duke Ellington, Zanzibar, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington at the Howard Theater
  Gottlieb portrait of Duke Ellington, Howard Theater(?), Washington, D.C., ca. June 1946].  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Should a young musician ... plan to have a conservatory background?
  Ellington and other bandleaders respond to Down Beat's June 17, 1946 Poser
    - added  20060722



• Through the Looking Glass
  Well-known photo of Duke in his dressing room, by William Gottlieb, Down Beat, Sept 23, 1946. Notice this is an image in a mirror. The same photo is here, too.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Down Beat cover Nov 4 1946
  Cover photo of Duke with Junior Raglin, Lawrence Brown (hard to see), Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance and Sonny Greer. The guitar pegboard appears to be that of Fred Guy. This was at the Aquarium where the band played from October 3 to 30. The Deep South Suite, including Happy-Go-Lucky Local, was premiered shortly after, on November 10.
    - added  20060722



• Ellington Cops Both Crowns
  Down Beat (January 1, 1947) announces Duke Sweeps Band Polls, Wins Swing and Sweet Titles
    - added  20060722



• Has Southern hospitality improved since the end of the war?
  Ellington, Cab Calloway and others respond to this Posin' question in Downbeat, May 21, 1947. Nice photo of Duke included.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• Four Symphonic Works
  At first I thought this anonymous webpage was going to be a CD review, but it's more than that. Fairly decent liner notes for the CD and the people who made it, then a biography of Ellington, and a CD listing.
    - added  20060701



• Duke Said It..This Is Law...
  Reproduction of Ellington's article on the state of swing
  - added  20060617



• SCDAS National Artist's Bio
  Rather lengthy on-line biography in a single paragraph! If the link doesn't work, try this, then choose Ellington from the menu at the top. You might find it easier to read the bio if you copy the text to a word processing program and play with the fonts a bit.
  - added  20060617



• Taking the A train with the Duke
  Richard O. Boyer travelled extensively with the great bandleader and his orchestra in the early Forties. Here he captures the spirit of the time. (This appears to be his Hot Bach article).
  - added  20060617



• We love you madly
  A week before his centenary on April 29, 1999, Duke Ellington was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in recognition of his musical genius. John Fordham assesses his legacy
  - added  20060617



• Was Ellington America's Greatest Composer?
  Short Ebony article by Joy Bennett Kinnon
  - added  20060615



• Duke Ellington: Meaning
  explanation-Guide online encyclopedia entry. Links on this page will also take you to short entries about the sidemen.
  added  20060522



• Duke Ellington by Thomas C. Fleming
  Short essay by the San Francisco Sun-Reporter writer: "I listened to one of his records and I liked it. After that, I bought only his records. There was a new release every month."  This article is also found here, where you can read his other wonderful stories as well.
     updated 20061204




• True Reformers Hall mural
  Image of Ellington mural on the True Reformers Hall, where Duke's "The Duke's Serenaders" performed as early as 1917.
    (thanks to Bill Egan on Duke-LYM) added  20060403



• Fan the Flame - In awe of countless blessings from and by The Duke
  Leonard Tim Hector writes of Ellington, his music and his environment.
    added  20060403



• Biography of Duke Ellington
  Studyworld.com essay on Ellington, focusing on his early years. Author not named. Some similarity to Echeat and Antiessay material in the link below.
    added  20060403



• The Duke
  Echeat.com essay on Ellington. Some similarity to Studyworld and antiEssay links above and below. Other Ellington essays available for purchase at this site.
    added  20060403



• Anti Essays
  Links to several essays on Ellington.
    updated  20080827 (thanks to M.Girvan)



• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Were Famous Around the World and Duke Ellington: His Life Story, part 2
  Transcripts of two-part March 2006 VOA Special English People in America program, with downloadable broadcasts in MP3 format. Basically a biographical introduction to Ellington with music. Recordings include Take the A Train, Lots o' Fingers, Mood Indigo, Concerto for Cootie, 4:30 Blues, Creole Love Call, Do Nothing ‘Till You Hear From Me, and Mobile Bay instead of the announced Things Ain't What They Used to Be.
    added  20060403



• The Immortal Duke Ellington - Brief Article
  In 1999, Patricia Spears Jones writes of Duke.
  added  20060326



• Duke Ellington
  Comprehensive jazz site in Italian, with what looks to be a significant page about Ellington.
  added  20060325



• Duke Ellington - A Past Master
  Tribute site by Barney John.
  added  20060308



• The Truth About Ellington's First Concert
  Details of Duke Ellington's first formal concert in the US, spearheaded by Orenstein at UCLA. This January 21, 1937 concert is not noted in Stratemann. The program details, including the personnel listing, are consistent with the reported date.
  Contributed by Stan Slome - added  20060301



• Duke pulled punches in his autobiography, confidante Stanley Dance revealed at Ellington '91
  Stanley Slome quotes Stanley Dance about how Ellington's Music is my Mistress was written.
  Contributed by Stan Slome - added  20060226



• Duke Ellington: The Pianist
  Sound clips - Jazz Profiles from NPR Duke Ellington: The Pianist Produced by Robert Levi. The page includes clips of CD reviews recommended by NPR as part of a basic jazz library.
  added  20060218



• Solid!-Duke Ellington
  Short biography, links to other musicians, including Elmer Snowden, Cootie Williams, Ivie Anderson and Kay Davis.
  - added  20060205



• Duke Ellington in US Federal Census Records
  Census records provide a unique look into Duke Ellington's early life.
  - -added  20060203



• The Collections - Major Figures in American Music
  Yale University's Oral History of American Music consists of approximately 800 interviews with composers, performers, & other significant musicians. The Duke Ellington Oral History has 92 interviews with and about Ellington, including Sonny Greer, John Hammond, Al Hibbler, Sy Oliver, Max Roach, Billy Taylor, and Mary Lou Williams. This page is a list of the interviews. It appears there is a book of transcriptions of interviews, with a couple of CDs with extracts from some of them. Best place to start is to click on the Home link.
  -added  ;20060129



• 1986 Fleetwood Cachet
  Brief bio on Multirace.org site, appears to be a stamp collector's or vendor's site.
    - added  20060126



• Wired for Books (Ohio University)
  30 minute audio clip - Don George discusses Duke Ellington's preferences, life, eating habits, temper, relationship with his band, thinking about drugs, etc., in this 1981 interview by Don Swaim (requires RealAudio)
   - added  20060123



• Discovering Duke Ellington - Stompy Jones
  Writing in the Austin Chronicle, Raoul Hernandez describes his first exposure to an Ellington recording, then discusses Ellington and his background.
   - added  20060123



• Duke Ellington biography on 8notes.com
  Biography with dozens of links to cross-references and a couple of ogg sound clips.
   - added  20060123



• Appreciating Ellington
  Lisa Robinson's essay about Ellington and a tribute concert in The Juillard Journal Online
   - added  20060120



• Thelonious Monk Sideman Bio - Ellington, Duke
  The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz essay attributed to André Hodeir & Gunther Schuller
  - added  20060116



• FBI files on Duke Ellington
  FBI's file released under the Freedom of Information Act.
    With thanks to Steve Bowie, whose site led me to this - added  20060107



• O'Connor Music Studio
  This fairly comprehensive site includes biographical notes on composers, including Duke Ellington. Also includes a couple of quotes attributed to Ellington.
  - added  20060120



• Ibiblio.com essay re Duke Ellington
  Essay with sound clips
  - added  20051229



• Jonathan Eig on Duke Ellington
  4 page 1996 essay on jazzspot.com
  contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20051229



• Duke Ellington - Gentleman Bandleader
  Tin-Pan Alley man, Ukulele Virtuoso, and Grammy winning artist Ian Whitcomb writes about Ellington
  - added  20051225



• Early Ellington in Chicago
  Jazz Institute of Chicago article by Richard Wang, August 2005
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard on Duke-LYM - added  20051203



• Duke Ellington - Did you mean Duke Ellington?
  I'm not sure how to describe this comprehensive little primarily English language French site owned by Daniel Weiss. It has introductory comments about Ellington, a short biography, a discography, and a few links to Ellington online resources. Better, though, is that is is chock-full of cross-references to sidemen, events, dates, etc. Appears to be an open-source encyclopedia. Well worth exploring.
  - added  20051203



• Duke Ellington: Jazz Legend
  1998 essay by Danae Johnson for his Music 074 - Introduction to Jazz course under Professor Paul Jeffrey. The text is a dark on a dark background. If you have trouble reading it, "select all," and copy it into a word processor as plain text.
  - added  20051203



• Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio - In the Spirit of Place
  Transcript of Jazz At Lincoln Center / NPR 1994 broadcast, including several short comments by David Berger.
  - added  20051203



• WQXR/Grove
  Brief Grove Dictionary biographical note on the website for 96.3 WQXR, the classical music station of the New York Times.
  - added  20051203



• American Masters - Duke Ellington
  Ellington biographical note, promoting a PBS American Masters program about Duke
  - added  20051203



• Historical U Street Jazz
  The Ellington's Washington: The Duke in his Hometown link on this page will take you to a comprehensive page on Duke Ellington, including a link to a 1921 picture of Duke at the Louis Thomas Cabaret, Washington DC, with Sonny Greer, singer Bertha Ricks, banjoist Sterling Conaway and Mrs. Conaway (identified from details re the same photo in Scott Yanow's book Duke Ellington).
  - added  20051127



• World Book - Duke Ellington
  Short World Book entry
  - added  20051007



• Ellington and his music
  Justin Hall's musings on Ellington and his recordings
  - added  20051007



• Ellington, Duke - Columbia Encyclopedia
  thefreedictionary.com site - about 2,000,000 articles including entries for Duke Ellington and some of the band people. Use the search engine for Ellington or other names. I found "Duke Ellington" got a good result.
  Contributed by Valerie Schaeffer - added  20050914



• Catching the Spirit of a Century
  1999 Peter Watrous essay in the New York Times
  - added 20050821



• Ellington Centennial: Recalling Shift in Popular Tastes
  Mark Tucker discusses Ellington from his 1943 appearance at Carnegie Hall to the mid-1950s in a 1999 New York Times essay.
  - added 20050821



• Still in Thrall to the Boss and His Sound
  Ben Ratliff writes in the New York Times about a 1999, reunion of Ellingtonians at Lincoln Center
  - added 20050821



• SUPER DUKE: Duke Ellington's Popular Songwriting
  John Hake's excellent EllingtonDuke.com site - short biography, lots of photos, soundclips.
  - added 20050818



• "If I hear a sigh of pleasure from the dance floor…
  Duke University jazz archive, How the Star Was Born, The Bandleader, and The Master of Jazz
  - added 20050814



• Duke Ellington's Varied Career
  Brief story about Ellington and his religious music
  - added 20050814



• Duke Ellington Posters & Art
  Jass.com Art Gallery - posters available to buy on Tom Morgan's site
  - added 20050814



• Edward K. "Duke" Ellington
  Kjell Håve's entry in www.classical-composers.org database.
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard- added 20050812



• Loving Him Madly:- Duke Ellington at 100
  Essay by Phillip D. Atteberry
  - added 20050812



• Pianist, composer, bandleader
  Biographical notes by John Matouk
  -discovered as a result of a suggestion by Stan Slome- added 20050812



• Pen and ink portrait
  Jim Blanchard's portrait for Your Fleshmagazine
  - added 20050801



• Who2 Profile
  Brief biographical note with some links
  - added 20050801



• Jazz on the Screen
  A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker - a searchable database documenting the work of major jazz & blues figures in over 14,000 film, tv & video productions. Stan Slome writes "This appeared on jazz-research, courtesy of Brian Priestley. Plug in Duke in search box and you'll find good stuff." If you type in Ellington, you'll get around 12 pages listing films or videos featuring or using Ellington.
  Contributed by Stan Slome - added 20050716



• Afgen
  Brief note on Afgen site
  - added 20050626



• Duke Ellington, Komponisten und Pianisten
  Lengthy article on this Swiss site, in German, I think.
  - added 20050619



• The Birth of a Jazz King
  Biographical sketch on BBC's pages
  - added 20050619



• Late period Ellington photos
  Classic jazz photos by Paul Slaughter
  - added 20050619



• The Duke of Ellington
  Curtain Up Guest Feature -Richard N. Hughes compares Ellington's performance style with that of others, describes his encounters with Ellington and Hodges, and describes what it was like to be at their concerts.
  Contributed by
  Lance Travis - added 20050619



• Brainy Encyclopedia
  Biographical entry with several links to background info
  - added 20050616



• House where Duke Ellington stayed is on National Register
  Boston.com news article about a guest house used by Ellington - short insight into his life on the road.
  - added 20050616



• Royal Jazz: The Monday Night Spotlight Shines on Duke Ellington
  Short tribute on WGBH 89.7's Jazz with Eric in the Eveningsite
  - added 20050616



• Jazz World? (site name is ambigous)
  Short biographical note, with links to some Ellington CDs available from Amazon
  - added 20050616



• Duke Ellington biography
  Biography, with quotes.
  - added 20050616



• Infoplease
  Brief biographical notes, some links, some references to books
  - added 20050616



• Sex, Wine and Rock'n'Roll
  S. Duda's tribute to Ellington
  - added 20050615



• Comparative Essay
  Brief essay by Patrick Love comparing Aaron Copeland and Duke Ellington
  - added 20050611



• Ellington, the Band Leader, Part 1
  Jazz Profiles from NPR - some text and several sound clip discussions about Ellington (Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, Joya Sherrill, Gunther Schuller, Dr. Billy Taylor , David Berger, John Sanders, Herb Jeffries, John Edward Hasse, David Baker and Wynton Marsalis)
  - added 20050604



• Jazzhouse.org library
  Click on the Duke link to open a page of articles:
  • 100 Years of Duke Ellington: Diminuendo, Crescendo, Resonance - Owen Cordle
  • Duke Ellington Remembered - Stanley Dance
  • Fingers: Celebrating Ellington the Pianist - Reuben Jackson
  • Happy Anatomy - Reuben Jackson
  • Dance's "Funeral Address" for Duke - Sue Markle
  • Ellington's New England - Tom Reney
  • His Heart Belongs to Duke - Tom Reney
  • The Duke of Elegance - Michael J. Renner
  • Duke Ellington - A Personal Reminiscence - Ron Sweetman
  • Duke Ellington's Far East Suite - Neil Tesser
  • Black, Brown & Beige - Richard Wang
  Contributed by Fred Stride & Arne Neegaard - added 20050522



• African Americans and Radio
  Donna L. Halper provides an overview of the black experience in radio from the early years up to the present day, and chronicles Ellington's first radio appearances in 1923.
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard- added 20050516



• Ondix.com and Digital Termpapers
  Part of an essay/term paper A Portrait of Duke Ellington by Tracy Frech
  - added 20050513



• Composer, bandleader, and pianist
  New Grove Dictionary of Jazz biographical sketch by André Hodeir & Gunther Schuller
  - added 20050513



• A Laurel For The Duke In His Centenary Year
  Skyjazz.com commentary
  - added 20050507



• Duke Ellington Homepage
  Biography and discography, links to Ellington societies.
  - added 20050501



• Images of Duke
  Some images for sale online
  - added 20050501



• Robert Fulford's column about Duke Ellington
  Globe and Mail 1999 article by Robert Fulford
  - added 20050427



• Classically Black: Duke Ellington
  Link to audio program, looks like a PBS production?
  - added 20050426



• People of Power: Duke Ellington
  Short article by Herbert F. Vetter
  - added 20050426



• Zwei Interviews mit Duke Ellington
  German language page, appears to be providing two recorded interviews with Duke
  - added 20050427



• Duke Ellington Dies, May 24, 1974
  Obituary, by Dr. Clint Wilson, in Chicago Courier, June 1, 1974, on Blackpressusa.com site
  - added 20050426



• Duke Ellington
  Harvey Lang: Performing Career - part of Mr. Lang's site, this page has some Ellington and Gonsalves photos, and two of Ellington's greeting cards.
  - added 20050426



• Duke in the Studio
  Single black and white photo of Ellington in the recording studio.
  - added 20050426



• Piano Bleu: Duke Ellington
  French language Ellington page
  - added 20050426



• Duke Ellington i Domkyrkan
  Swedish language page about Ellington, I think it means "in the cathedral."
  - added 20050426



• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
  Bill Zick's Africlassical.com site - brief bio of Ellington, with references to some recordings, and images of several CD covers. Attractively designed site, with several Ellington links. Also links to other composers of African descent, and to a classical music webring.
  - added 20050515



• Kidlane - Ellington für Kinder
  Appears to be a German language elementary level page on Ellington.
  - added 20050425



• Programa Especial "Duke Ellington"
  Mexican site, in Spanish.
  - added 20050426



• Biography and much more
  - Answers.com site - includes excerpts from other sites mentioned herein, but some of the links look as if they might be fun to check out.
  - added 20050425



• He trusts Mr. O'Malley
  Ellington letter to the PM magazine, published December 1942.
  - added 20050425



• Duke Ellington
  Factmonster site, short bio with some links
  - added 20050425



• Duke Ellington
  Short Infoplease.com entry
  - added 20050425



• Duke Ellington
  Christopher Fegley's (?) biographical sketch of Ellington, on Penn State University site. There are a few errors, but globally, a good webpage.
  - added 20050422



• Ellington on Oldies.com
  Fairly long biographical notes, together with links to some less well-known CD's for sale
  - added 20050422



• Duke Ellington on the MTV shop
  Biographical notes (long) and lengthy list of available recordings for sale- CD's, DVD's, LP's etc.
  - added 20050421



• Duke Ellington
  "All Music Guide" biography by William Ruhlmann
  Contributed by
  Stan Brager from a suggestion from Kennabro on Duke-LYM  - added  20050407



• Duke Ellington's Posthumous Revenge
  Nat Hentoff on the Pulitzer and Ellington
  - added  20050401



• DUKE ELLINGTON, A LIFE IN MUSIC by Grover Sales
  American Mavericks program notes (San Francisco Symphony?)
  - added  20050401



• Sing a Song of Ellington
  Comprehensive site, includes sound clips.
  - added  20050328



• Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
  Fairly decent biography of Ellington, includes quotes from other sources, with bibliography
  - added  20050328



• Duke Ellington bio
  Biography, author unknown
  - added  20050328



• Duke Ellington
  Jazzscript site - brief timeline
  - added  20050328



• EARWORTHY - recommended sound recordings,including those of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis
  American Visions, June, 1999 by T. Brooks Shepard
  - added  20050327



• onlinetalent.com
  Booking agency page regarding the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Interesting statement "At the age of six young Ellington labeled his piano teacher "Miss Clinkscales"..." but is it true her name was just Duke's childhood invention? This site also includes Elmer Snowden in a listing of the musicians who stayed with Ellington for many years.
  - added  20050326



• A dance to Ellington -
  Choreographer Talley Beatty's tribute to Duke Ellington, 'Ellingtonia' American Visions article by Anthony C. Murphy
  - added  20050327



• Duke Ellington St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
  Brief biography by Benjamin Griffith
  - added  20050327



• Duke Ellington. - Review - audiobook review
  Duke Ellington by A & B Pinkney narr. by F.W. Disney "imaginative recount of the Duke's rise to stardom, the reader can almost feel the cool night air and hear the soulful sounds of the Harlem Streets in the early 1920's" for young listeners
  - added  20050327



• Hail to the Duke - Duke Ellington inspired choreographers -
  Brief article from Dance Magazine, August, 2000 by Don Mcdonagh "Choreographers were drawn to Ellington as to no other contemporary composer. He spoke in the rhythmic accents of the twentieth century in a musical idiom developed out of the black experience. To it he brought an elegance of phrasing and a subtlety that remains unique. It is intrinsically stimulating to men and women who dance, and to the choreographers who design those dances."
  - added  20050327



• To Love Him Madly - jazz legend Duke Ellington
  American Visions article, April, 1999 by Sharon Fitzgerald. "We asked a few people who knew and loved him to share their reminiscences about the musician, the work, the man."
  "He could put you on a lot. I remember once he put me on something terrible in Las Vegas. They were having a battle of the bands, Duke and Woody Herman. He was introducing people ... and guys in the band were hollering out names. Somebody ... hollered my name out to him, and he said, `Ah, yes, Tommy Flanagan. My piano teacher always told me to be careful playing in the presence of Tommy Flanagan.' I thought, My goodness, it was so much flattery...'"
  - added  20050327



• Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography by Janna Tull Steed.
  Excerpt from Rev. Steed's book, including the passage related to Ellington's first Concert of Sacred Music, now known as the First Sacred Concert
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20050327



• En biografisk skisse - Paal Fagerheim
  Norwegian biography, in Norske
  - added  20050317



• Ellington on Film.
  Library of Congress Index
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20050319



• Jazz Legends - their life & music
  Mike Slack discusses Ellington's pre-Cotton Club days.
  - added  20050317



• Ellington in Cleveland
  Jazzed in Cleveland, Part 29Joe Mosbrook chronicles Ellington's appearances in Cleveland.
  - added  20050317



• Duke Ellington
  PBS Biography, with photos and audio interviews
  - added  20050312



• Sonny Greer talks about growing up with Ellington (requires RealAudio)
  Duke Ellington is perhaps the most well known jazz musician to hail from Washington, D.C. Born on April 29, 1899, he was raised in a middle-class home that valued the arts. Listen to drummer Sonny Greer talk about growing up with Duke Ellington.
  - added  20050305



• Post-Canonical Ellington by Mark Tucker
  "...why not applaud wildly as Ellington settles down for a long afterlife in the pantheon of Great Composers? Quite simply, because he doesn’t fit comfortably there..." Mark Tucker discusses Ellington's musical personality - his roles as band leader, band pianist, small group pianist, soloist, arranger, & popular songwriter.
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20050304



• Duke Ellington in "Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music"
  Comprehensive biographical entry by Donald Clarke. Many Ellingtonians and recordings are discussed. A good read (Palmquist's view).
  Contributed by Donald Clarke  - added  2005-02-27 and updated 2012-01-10



• 5 photos of Duke by Charles Peterson
  Click on the link near the bottom of the page called Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson for high quality images of Duke with
  • Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, Helen Oakley, Stanley Dance
  • J.C. Higgenbotham, Brad Gowan, Juan Tizol, Eddie Condon
  • Cab Calloway, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ivie Anderson
  • Anderson, Calloway
  • Bud Freeman
  Contributed by David Hill - amended 20050522
  



• "Spats"
  Earl "Spats" Okin on Duke Ellington
  - added  20050220



• In His Own Words/Ellington's Ode to Black History
  Article by historian Harvey G. Cohen, who found a 39-page script Ellington wrote for the performance of "Black, Brown and Beige," but didn't read. Cohen suggests he should be considered an important figure not only in American music but in American history. Caution: you will have to register to view the article - lots of popups on this site) The same article can also be found in Free New Mexican, here, with no popups. See also the Inez Cavanaugh link on this page which suggests Cavanaugh may have been the author.
  Contributed by
  Jack Heaney in Duke-LYM - added  20060120



• Song Writer's Hall of Fame
  Bio, discography, list of 773 songs, several sound clips
  - added  20050219



• Duke Ellington Memorial
  Duke Ellington Memorial Dedicated in Harlem
  - added  20050219



• Downbeat.com
  Biography, long list of CDs and other recorded material, a few rarer photos (click the circled numbers), and archived articles. (The recording links just take you to the online retailer's sign in page.)
  - added  20050219



• Find a Grave
  Obituary by Curtis Jackson; click on the photo of Ellington's grave marker to see a bigger copy. Stan Slome suggests "The marker---since Duke's May 24 death date is coming up--would answer the question of how he wanted the Duke part of his name used."
  - added  20050515



• Duke Ellington For This Millenium
  Digital portrait gallery by Rosalind Letcher
  - added  20050219



• Duke Ellington
  A Web Page designed by Annie Lewis for "Introduction to Jazz"
  - added  20050219



• Mercedes Ellington
  This one should not be missed: with granddaughter Mercedes Ellington
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050213



• Gary Giddins (long article)
  A very lengthy interview with Gary Giddins (73 pp.),in which he touches on Duke several times; more detailed passages can be found on pp. 35-38, 47, and 51-56."I loved the band that he had in the sixties. He had the best of all possible worlds. He had a lot of the great soloists that he always had. He still had John. It’s very interesting to remember that these musicians so adored Ellington that they gave him their lives. You don’t find this anywhere else."
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050213



• Stanley Crouch
  "See, he was the kind of person people looked out for." Lengthy interview of Stanley Crouch; lots of Ellington content, especially on pp. 14-20 and 51-58.
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050213



• Ellington singer Joya Sherrill on Duke
  "I think the important thing to remember is that he didn’t think too much of himself. You know, as great as Duke was, he was not cocky. He was not conceited. He was very humble. ...But traveling could, could be really kind of rough because we’d travel for hours and then we’d have to get out of the bus, get on the stage, and do a great show. And somehow, you know it’s so funny, that the more difficult the traveling was, or the more tired everyone was, the greater the music was..."
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050213



• First time you met Duke...
  Helen Oakley Dance interviewed. She starts talking about Duke on page 5. She explains the reason for John Hammond's dislike of DE.
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard,Norway - added  20050210



• Duaneiac's Yahoo! Groups Ellington discussion
  About 300 postings about Ellington subjects as at Feb 7 2005.
  - added  20050207



• Duke Ellington
  James McGonigal's Ellington biography from his Ella Fitzgerald site
  - added  20050207



• The KWMU Ellington Project
  Broadcaster Dennis Owsley documents his Ellington radio series in St. Louis - site includes his jazz pages.
  - added  20050206



• Ellington quotes
  "Brainy Quote" site - i.e., My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
  - added  20050206



• Duke in North by South site
  Brief bio and links in The African American Great Migration on "North by South" discusses Duke Ellington
  - added  20050206



• A Centennial Tribute to Duke Ellington
  Howard University Founders Page - biographical sketch, great portraits, related links. Nice site, dated 1999. Also here.
  - added  20050206 updated 20080224



• Information & Research Assistance - Guides -Duke Ellington
  Howard University Library System Centennial Tribute to Ellington - very similar to the Founders Page, but some differences. Seems to be an updated version of the other one. Not dated.
  - added  20051203



• Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899 - 1974) Pianist, Bandleader, Composer
  Duke University material on Ellington - illustrations, bio, discography
  - added  20050206



• The Columbia Encyclopedia
  Short biographical note
  - added  20050206



• Duke Ellington
  Ellington story on BBC site
  - added  20050206



• Duke Ellington"Don't Get Around Much any More"
  Short biographical note on Spectrum educational site? Watch out for Quicktime and for ads
  - added  20050206



• Essentials of Music - Composers - DUKE (EDWARD KENNEDY) ELLINGTON
  Sony's bio
  - added  20050206



• Duke Ellington
  University of Michigan site, hosting "An Exhibition Portfolio from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,The New York Public Library"
  - updated 2010-05-19



• Duke Ellington Composer, Pianist and Jazz Bandleader
  Biography on DC Library site
  - added  20050206



• Duke Ellington from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Page on Duke with many related links
  - added  20050206



• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
  Gunther Schuller speaks of Jazz, Ellington and Mingus at Cambridge University, 1996
  - added  20050206



• Presidential Medal of Freedom
  President Richard Nixon honours Ellington with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050206



• Smithsonian Jazz Class
  Teaching plan regarding Ellington
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050206



• Storiella Americana as She is Swyung: Duke Ellington, the Culture of Washington, D.C. and the Blues as Representative Anecdote
  Albert Murray's essay, with his famous and much cited description of Duke as the 'quintessential American composer' at the end of the article.
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050206



• Another Duke Ellington Story
  Kalamu Ya Salaam shows Duke's charm and charisma
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20050206



• Duke Ellington
  Britannica.com biographical note and bibliography
  - added  20050206



• "We, too, sing 'America'"
  Excerpt from speech by Ellington, 1941
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050205



• 'Shakespeare is dug by the craziest of cats'
  CBC interview with Ellington, Broadcast May 15,1957
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard(Norway) - added  20050205



• Bio, Red Hot Jazz
  Red Hot Jazz writeup on Duke
  - added  20050204



• Celebrating 100 years...
  Collaboration by the Smithsonian and the American Music Educators National Conference
  - added  20050204



• Rockin' in Rhythm (part 1) and (part 2)
  1999 Village Voice articles - Gary Giddins and Elora Alexander invite 40 jazz critics and historians to write 200 words on any Ellington selection, album, tune, musician, or notion that the centenary mood inspired
  Contributed by Louis Tavecchio - added  20050203



• Jazz Professional
  "Break their hearts"Interviewed by Derek Edwards, Milt Bernhart remembers playing with Ellington. A poignant insight into the way Ellington worked. (discovered by Stan Slome on Ed Bride's Kenton site)
  - added  20050521



• Smithsonian's DUKE ELLINGTON COLLECTION
  Jørgen Mathiasen: "...The Smithsonian ...is one of the largest documents we have as source to Ellington's oeuvre."
  - added  20050130



• Beyond Category, The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
  and
  Bringing Out the Best in Ellington
  Essays by John Edward Hasse, Curator of American Music, National Museum of American History (The Smithsonian Institute)
  - added  20050129



• The Once and Future King
  Gary Giddins on Armstrong, touching on Ellington
  - added  20050129



• Duke Ellington Youth Project
  National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
  - added  20050129



• Duke Ellington biography
  Black History Month essay on educational publisher Thomson Gale's site
  - added  20050129



• UCLA Today on Professor Kenny Burrell re Ellington centennial
  Article by Mona Gable
  - added  20050129



• Duke Ellington Scrapbook
  Photoessay ARTSEDGE (The Music Educator's National Conference) & the NIMH
  - added  20050129



• Library of Congress - Musicians & Composers
  Meet Amazing Americans - Ellington
  - added  20050129



• Duke Ellington Photo Gallery
  Duke Ellington photo gallery
  - added  20050129



• A Tribute to Duke Ellington
  Brian Trotta's page devoted to Duke Duke Ellington
  - added  20050129



• Washington Post
  The Washington Post's Ellington homepage
  - added  20050129



• Today in History April 29
  Today in History - annotated pictures by William Gottlieb of Ellington and some of his colleagues  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
  - added 20050611



• Duke Ellington by William P. Gottlieb
  Lee Farley writes: "25 photographs..., part of the Gottlieb jazz photography collection at the Library of Congress. The photos can be enlarged in high resolution. A search on names of Ellington sidemen will retrieve dozens of additional photographs."  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
  - added  20050129



• Duke Ellington Itinerary
  Carl Hällström documents Duke's travels 1930 to 1950 - based on Joe Igo's research, with updates by Steven Lasker, Ken Steiner and others
  - added  20050129



• Remembering a Duke of style and substance
  Such sweet thunder, by Jim Higgins April 25, 1999
  - added  20050130



• Was Ellington America's Greatest Composer?
  Joy Bennett Kinnon, Ebony Magazine,April 1999
  - added  20050130



• Duke Ellington and the American Dream
  Sermon, The Rev. David E. Bumbaugh, Jr. (The Rev. Paul L'Herrou?)
  - added  20050130



• Agreeable to the Ear
  A jazz immortal's last stand in Knoxville, by Jack Neely
  - added  20050130



• Marsalis essay Ellington at 100: Reveling in Life's Majesty and a short from the essay with links to photos and multimedia
  Wynton Marsalis on Ellington (New York Times)
  - added  20050130



• Duke Ellington's Washington
  PBS essay
  - added  20050130



• Jazz Professional
  Ellington Looks Back and Forward - 1964 interview with Les Tomkins
  - added  20050521



• Norton Books biographical notes and sound clips
  W.W.Norton Books article, clips and links17:41 1/22/05
  - added  20050130



• Virtual Art Gallery
  Hawaiian Academy of the Performing Arts - Ellington images
  - added  20050130



• "On the Road With Duke Ellington"
  Online Daily Nexus (David Downs) Film Review Feb 1 2001
  - added  20050130



• Howard University Tribute to Duke
  1999 Centennial tribute to Duke
  - added  20050130



• The "Official" Duke Ellington site
  Site of the Estate of Mercer Ellington
  - added  20050130



• Mark Tucker
  Ellington biography from his The Duke Ellington Reader
  - added  20050130



• Artists of Jazz - Duke Ellington
  Dr. Billy Taylor on Duke Ellington
  - added  20050130



• All-Music Guide
  Scott Yanow, brief bio of Ellington
  - added  20050130



• Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
  Red Hot Jazz on Ellington at The Cotton Club
  - added  20050130



• National Public Radio
  NPR radio shows about Ellington and others
  - added  Jan 2005



• Dr. Steven Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
  Biographical data and essay, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and link to biography from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
  - added  20050219



• Ellington quotes
  A few short quotes by Ellington
  - added  20050213



• Early signed photo and a comfort letter to ABC re an appearance on the Don Sherwood show in San Francisco (Louie's Juke Joint memorabilia)
  - added  20050224

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  Peter MacHare's List of Ellington Musicians, with their dates in the band.



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• The Duke's In Bed, The Ellingtonians, as encountered by Steve Voce
  I have long admired the insightful and comprehensive obituaries Steve Voce writes for The Independent and shares with the Duke-LYM community. At Carl Hällström's suggestion, Steve and his publishers kindly agreed to let me webpublish articles and obituaries he has written related to Ellington and his associates.
    Contributed by Carl Hällström and Steve Voce - added  2011-07-26




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  Tales of the Big Bands - Duke Ellington
  Jazz Backstory, Adventures in the Jazz Archive. In this blog, several sidemen discuss their introduction to the band and Duke. Very interesting to read.
    Contributed by Loek Hopstaken via Duke-LYM - added  2011-07-26




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A DUKE NAMED ELLINGTON’
Brief biographical notes about approximately 20 of Ellington's musicians and associates.
  - added  20070307



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• Band photo, April 1943 at the Hurricane Club, NYC
  Gordon Parks photo in the Library of Congress site. Reeds,L-R: Webster, Hodges, Chauncey Haughton, Sax Mallard, Carney; 'Bones, L-R: Nanton, Tizol, Brown; Trumpets (not sure which is which): Nance, Stewart, Wallace Jones and Harold Baker. Greer, Guy and Raglin are not visible, nor are the vocalists. If you download the photo to your image program and lighten it, they're easier to recognize. This is an action shot of the horns, and here is a shot of Betty Roché, Nance, Duke and possibly Jimmy Britton, although it might be Carney.
    - added  20080208

• Strayhorn plays Take the A Train
  Rare 1965 video of Billy playing his composition in concert with the band.
    - added  20091004



• Highway Marker honors Billy Strayhorn and the “A” Train
  Brief story from 2008
  -  - added  20081129



• New Now Next - Billy Strayhorn Tribute
  "Ellington’s line is important because Strayhorn was gay and out and the Duke did not care." Special guest blog about Strayhorn, including video of Phineas Newborn playing Lush Life.
    - added  20080817



• A Billy Strayhorn Show Also here.
  Review of concert by The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. Includes a brief commentary about the popularity of Strayhorn's music in the gay community, and includes a good YouTube video of Strayhorn playing A Train with the band. We also get a glimpse of Gonsalves passed out on stage. That must have been very disturbing to the audience.
    - added  20080817



• Billy Strayhorn biography
  Biographical sketch by Richard S. Ginell
    - added  20080224



• Strayhorn Gets His Credit
  Will Friedwald column in the New York Sun, discussing the video Lush Life, and inter alia, Strayhorn.
    - added  20080224



• Billy Strayhorn, the prodigy behind Duke Ellington's music
  San Francisco Chronicle article on Strayhorn, from 2007 preceding the release of the Lush Life video
    - added  20080224



• Black LGBT History Day 21: Billy Strayhorn
  Biography on www.bilerico.com
   - added  20080224



• Billy Strayhorn Tribute
  NewNowNext.com blog and tribute to Strayhorn; includes video clip of Lush Life played by Phineas Newborn Jr.
   - added  20080224



• Billy Strayhorn, Composer, Pianist, Arranger
  Brief bio by Sandra Burlingame on JazzStandards.com
    - added  20071122



• Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
  In this short essay posted to the Duke-LYM discussion group, Mr. Berger discusses the musical relationship between Ellington and Strayhorn.
    Contributed by David Berger- added  20070204



• Billy Strayhorn, the prodigy behind Duke Ellington's music
  David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer previews the forthcoming PBS “Independent Lens” documentary Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
    Contributed by Ernest A. Nagy on Duke-LYM- added  20070204



• Truth or consequences - Jazz
  The peerless music of an adventurous dreamer. Martin Roebuck writes about Strayhorn in Xtra in 2004.
    added  20061111



• The Jazz Column 26 - Strayhorn
  Michael Ullman's Fanfare Magazine article about Billy Strayhorn and his music
  Michael Ullman- added 20061009



• Portrait of Strayhorn
  Gottlieb photo of Billy sometime between 1946 and 1948.  Mr. Gottlieb's photos are copyrighted. Check here for permissions.
    - added  20060722



• If you had your life to live over...
  An insight - Strayhorn and Mary Lou Williams respond to Downbeat's June 4 1947 Poser
    - added  20060722



• Neighbours From the Shadows
  MySA.com article about Larry Strayhorn, Billy Strayhorn's nephew, including some information about the composer.
  - added  20060224 as a result of Stan Brager's mention of it on Duke-LYM



• Take the A Train
  NPR's "100 most important American musical works of the 20th century" series - "In 1938, Billy Strayhorn, a Pittsburgh soda jerk, drugstore delivery boy, and composer in his free time, knocked out this classic. When he swung a meeting with jazz great Duke Ellington, however, a professional composing career finally became a reality. With vision, Ellington turned his song, about one of New York's unreliable subways to Harlem and Sugar Hill, into a famed jazz standard. NPR's Brooke Gladstone talks to Strayhorn biographer, David Hajdu who tells the story of a bold kid who dared to challenge the great Duke Ellington and, in turn, became one of his closest friends." Scroll down the page to find the 8 minute sound clip.
  - added  20060218



• A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn
  and
  www.willieruff.com: Strayhorn - A Mitchell-Ruff Interpretation
  Willie Ruff recalls the way Strayhorn composed his Suite for Horn and Piano, and recalls performing it at Lincoln Center on Oct.6 1968. The article, reproduced on both links, is as much about Ellington as it is about Strayhorn. On Ruff's home page, click the Kepler Catalogue link to get to a list of Mitchell-Ruff CDs. The first one has a 5 minute soundclip of the 1st movement of the Strayhorn suite. Clicking the r. jackson photos link will take you to a page of photos of Ellington and other jazz stars.
  - added 20050819



• Lush Life, A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
  Introduction and one chapter of David Hajdu's biography of Strayhorn
  - added 20050812



• Something To Live: For The Music Of Billy Strayhorn, by Walter Van De Leur
  Book review on Jazzscript site
  - added  20050328



• Lush Life, A Biography of Billy Strayhorn , by David Hadju
  Book review on Jazzscript site
  - added  20050328



• Harry Herforth remembers growing up with Billy Strayhorn
  Jazzed in Cleveland , Part 31, by Joe Mosbrook
  - added  20050317



• Great Encounters The first meeting of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
  Excerpt from Lush Life : A Biography of Billy Strayhornby David Hajdu
  - added  20050314



• Billy Strayhorn
  Dr. Billy Taylor on Billy Strayhorn
  - added  20050130



• Billy Strayhorn
  Official Billy Strayhorn page
  - added  20050130



• Billy Strayhorn
  Billy Strayhorn bio on the Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. site
  - added  20050130



• Billy Strayhorn links
  Dr. Martin Maner's Billy Strayhorn page, with links to Strayhorn sites
  - added  20050130



• Billy Strayhorn
  Short Strayhorn bio on BBC site
  - added  20050206



• The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions
  "...printed...scores and parts derived ...from the handwritten manuscripts of ...Strayhorn. ...Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. has chosen the Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago Library ... as repository for the complete set ..."
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard - added  20050219



• Billy Strayhorn - Portrait of a Silk Thread
  4 JazzSight Profiles by Jack Twomey re Strayhorn, Getz, Krupa & Miller
  Contributed by Arne Neegaard- added  20050210



• Billy Strayhorn
  Britannica.com biographical note
  - added  20050205



• Billy_Strayhorn
  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  - added  20050206



• Billy Strayhorn
  PBS Biography, with photos and audio interviews
  - added  20050312

The Female Vocalists

The Male Vocalists

The Reed Men

The Trumpets

The Bassists

The Drummers

Butch Ballard's obituary
George E. Ballard, "one of the Philadelphia jazz scene's most storied elders," died Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 at Cheltenham-York Road Nursing Center in Philadelphia and age 92.
  Contributed by Tom Reney in Duke-LYM - added 2011-10-15

Other Instrumentalists

Multiple Ellingtonians

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Ellington societies and their newsletters

La Maison du Duke/Duke's Place in Paris (Français)
La Maison du Duke/Duke's Place in Paris (English)
Home page of the French society La Maison du Duke/Duke's Place in Paris
- added  2011-06-27

The International DEMS Bulletin
The periodical of the International Duke Ellington Music Society (Belgium), published since 1979, is now available on-line. 2001 to the present are in HTML format, and earlier editions are in PDF files. Editor Sjef Hoefsmit passed away in 2013, and it is not certain if or in what form the DEMS bulletins will continue.
- updated 2013-08-10

The Duke Ellington Society UK
The Duke Ellington Society of the United Kingdom's purpose is to further the study, appreciation and dissemination of the music of Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington and his writing and arranging companion Billy Strayhorn.
- updated 20070319

Blue Light
DESUK newsletter - note you can purchase back issues to as early as 1996 at this site.
- updated 20070319

TDES Inc. (new site) and
TDES Inc. (old site)
The Duke Ellington Society (New York) If you don't use the suggested Flash Media plug-in, the page won't display properly. It takes only a moment to instal, and doesn't require any expertise.
- added 20050224

The Duke Ellington Society
The Duke Ellington Society, Washington
- added  20050130

Duke Ellington Society, Bay Area Chapter
The Duke Ellington Society in San Francisco
  Contributed by Agustín Pérez- added  20060405

The Duke Ellington Society, Toronto
The Duke Ellington Society, Toronto
- added  20060405
  Contributed by Jim Northover - updated 2013-08-10

Duke Ellington Society of Southern California
Duke Ellington Society of Southern California
- updated 2011-04-30

Duke Ellington Society of Sweden
Duke Ellington Society of Sweden (DESS) has been active without interruption for 14 years with a minimum of four club meetings with live music each year. Members receive the quarterly magazine "Bulletin", of high standard with many original articles by informed writers. There is a mixture of English and Swedish material, which has been appreciated by our international members. New members are welcome at the annual US$40 fee. The new homepage ellington.se is now in operation with ambitions to also include some material in English.
- updated 20071028

Ellington '04 International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference
Antony Pepper's page, with photos, including Alice Babs
- added 20050415

Origin of The Duke Ellington Study Group
Melvin Saxton's presentation to the May 1998 16th Annual Duke Ellington International Conference, Chicago
  - added  20070823

Duke Ellington Study Group Los Angeles
The Ellington Study Group is organized and led by composer and pianist Scott Healy, and is open to all music professionals.
added  2011-09-25

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