Portrait of Wellman Braud (Podcast #23-010)
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1d ago
“Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Wellman Braud were like Jelly [Roll Morton]; they’d talk as long as anyone would listen and hung around outside the Band Box. After Braud got written up in Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” column, he was too big for anybody. Ripley said he could pick faster than any bass player. He quit Duke’s band and started one of his own. He got a nice little band together to play a place over in Jersey. He talked so much to the man who owned the place about where to put the tables and how things were in the wrong place, the man told him to get his band together and get the hell ..read more
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Side by Side and Back to Back (Podcast #23-009)
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1M ago
The recordings heard on this podcast episode: (CD: “Duke Ellington, The Centennial Edition” RCA Victor ‎– 09026-63386-2) I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Recorded 30 October 1928 and 10 November 1928, NYC) Arthur Whetsel, Freddie Jenkins – trumpet; Joe Nanton – trombone; Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney – reeds; Duke Ellington – piano; Fred Guy – banjo; Wellman Braud – bass; Sonny Greer – drums; Irving Mills, Baby Cox – vocal. When A Black Man’s Blue (Record 21 November 1930 and 10 December 1930, NYC) Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, Freddie Jenkins – trumpet; Joe Nanton, J ..read more
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Portrait of Arthur Whetsel (Podcast #23-008)
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2M ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/portrait-of-arthur-whetsel.mp3 “As a trumpet player, [Arthur Whetsel] had a tonal personality that has never really been duplicated. Sweet, but not syrupy, nor schmaltzy, nor surrealistic, it had a superiority of extrasensory dimensions. Both as a soloist and from the point of view of teamwork, he was a fine musician. Everything with him had to be of the best, and he was one of the really good readers.” Duke Ellington, Music is my Mistress Arthur Parker Whetsel [1905-1940]     Duke Ellington and his orchestra, with Arth ..read more
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Portrait of Norris Turney (Podcast #23-007)
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3M ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/portrait-of-norris-turney.mp3 Norris Turney (Photo by Jan Persson) The recordings heard on this podcast episode: Checkered Hat (CD: “Togo Brava Suite” Storyville Records STCD 8323) Recorded 3 February 1971, New York City Cootie Williams, Eddie Preston, Harold “Money” Johnson, Mercer Ellington – trumpet; Booty Wood, Malcolm Taylor, Chuck Connors – trombone; Russell Procope, Norris Turney, Harold Ashby, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney – reeds; Wild Bill Davis – organ; Duke Ellington – piano; Joe Benjamin – bass; Rufus Jones – drums ..read more
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Togo Brava Suite (Podcast #23-006)
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4M ago
In 1967, the west African nation of Togo released a postage stamp of Duke Ellington. Ellington reciprocated by writing the four movement Togo Brava Suite in 1971, the subject of this month’s episode of Ellington Reflections. 1967 Togo postage stamp celebrating Duke Ellington A performance of the Togo Brava Suite performed by the European Broadcasting Union Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Homzy The recordings heard on this podcast episode: Togo Brava Suite (CD: “Togo Brava Suite” Storyville Records STCD 8323) Recorded 28 June 1971, New York City Cootie Williams, Richard Willia ..read more
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Ellington 2023 – Duke and the Lights (Podcast #23-003)
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8M ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/city-of-lights.mp3 ELLINGTON MEETING 2023 Since 1981, Ellington experts from around the world have been meeting every year in order to exchange and share their knowledge about Duke Ellington’s work and life. After the US, England, Canada, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, La Maison du Duke welcomes for the first time in France the international symposium dedicated to one of the greatest creators of the 20th century. 27/28/29 avril – DUKE AND THE LIGHTS A red thread articula ..read more
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One More Once… (Podcast #23-002)
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9M ago
  https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/one-more-once.mp3 The recordings heard on this podcast episode: Under construction!   — Our closing music—- It’s Something You Ought To Know (Paul Gonsalves – “Ellingtonia Moods and Blues,” RCA Victor / RCA63562) Recorded 29 February 1960, New York City Paul Gonsalves- tenor sax; Johnny Hodges – alto sax; Ray Nance – cornet; Mitchell “Booty” Wood – trombone; Jimmy Jones – piano; Al Hall – bass; Oliver Jackson – drums ..read more
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Reminiscing In Tempo (Podcast #23-001)
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10M ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/reminiscing-in-tempo.mp3 “Every page of that particular manuscript [Reminiscing in Tempo] was dotted with smears and unshapely marks caused by tears that had fallen. I would sit and gaze into space, pat my foot, and say to myself, “Now, Edward, you know she would not want you to disintegrate, to collapse into the past, into your loss, into lengthy negation or destruction. She did not spend all the first part of your life preparing you for this negative attitude.” I believed I could hear the words, her words, and slowly – but never ..read more
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Cootie plays Duke, Part II (Podcast #22-013)
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1y ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/cootie-plays-duke-part-ii.mp3 The recordings heard on this podcast episode: Concerto for Cootie (CD: Benny Goodman and Sid Catlett “Roll ’em!,” Vintage Jazz Classics VJC-1032) Recorded 1941 Cootie Williams,  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (CD: “The Jubilee Shows – No. 77 and No. 78,” The Jubilee Shows 501 1004) Recorded 1 May 1944, Hollywood Ella Fitzgerald – vocal; Cootie Williams, Ermit V. Perry, George Treadwell, Harold “Money” Johnson – trumpet; Ed Burke or George Stevenson, Robert Horton – trombone; Charlie Holm ..read more
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The New York Choral Society performs Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts (Podcast #22-011)
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1y ago
https://ellingtonreflectionsdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/sacred-concert-podcast-2022.mp3 “The concert was performed for the first time on September 16, 1965, and it was successful beyond my wildest dreams, both in San Francisco and at a subsequent performance in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York on December 26. Duke Ellington Talked to the Lord in Grace Cathedral Last Night, read headlines above a UPI report in hundreds of newpapers across the country. “These were musicians offering what they did best – better than any others in the world – to the glory of God,” said the S ..read more
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