Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Class Day week will get under way this evening at ten o'clock as the Senior Class holds its annual dance at Lowell House. Duke Ellington will play, with songstress Ivy Anderson as a feature...
This is no problem of "aiding they inferiors." Taking the field of music alone, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes, Marion Anderson and all the rest of the known Negro artists are peer if not superiors of their white competitors. If we are interested in American democracy, sheets should be used for beds, not hoods...
Calling a spade a spade, this year's Senior Dance Committee has clanged the name of the Senior Spread to the Senior Dance. The dance, featuring Duke Ellington's orchestra, will be held in the Lowell House Courtyard on June...
...supper will be served from 11:30 to 1 o'clock, with plenty of Coca Cola and other beverages available at all times. The Committee feels that though food is abundant, its appeal is slight beside that of Ellington's music...
...make record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still think that they record him slowly in order to get that "Ride of the Walkyrie" effect...