Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas, which had the worst poliomyelitis epidemic of its history, with over 750 cases. (Dallas has closed all its 34 swimming pools; Houston has been declared out of bounds for Ellington Field cadets...
...Among its sponsors: Bandleaders' Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Armsrong Muggsy Spanier...
...Louis. Mary Lou, born in Pittsburgh, was one of eleven children. She started playing and composing at six. At 14 she was taken on the Orpheum Circuit. The following year she played with Duke Ellington and his early small band, the Washingtonians. Today she is one of Ellington's arrangers. But her mind keeps turning to oldtime sessions with the Kansas City greats: Benny Moten, Pete Johnson, Joe Turner, Count Basic. Mary Lou's special contribution was an unearthly swinging dirge which the boys called "zombie." It was musicians' music. Asked if she would...
That market is now hotter than a jump session with Duke Ellington. The new piano supply is close to exhaustion; prices of used instruments have soared like an upward series of arpeggios...
Brewing in the realm of dim possibility is a series of six epochal jazz concerts, under the title of "Cavalcade of Jazz." When and where and how, nobody knows, but one of the biggest agencies in the country is handling the affair, and after the success of the Ellington and Kirby concerts, such a grandiose idea may bear solid fruit...