Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moon Mist (Duke Ellington; Victor). Distinctive Ellington treatment of an indigo tune by the bandleader's son, Mercer Ellington, introduced by rhapsodic fiddling from Trumpeter Ray Nance...
...some good orchestra, there's hardly anything interesting. If you can't drop off to sleep before two o'clock, however, there is something to be heard almost every night. Within the past two weeks, for instance, I have, through adroit manipulation of the dials, found Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jay McShaun, not to mention some people called the Six Korn Kobblers who had a good muted trumpet in their midst...
Great and wonderful sounds could be heard in Boston this past week from a couple of out-of-the-way places not generally frequented by Harvard men. One, of course, was the Keith Boston, which swerved out of its second-rate vaudeville groove long enough to present Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra and Ethel Waters in a thoroughly enjoyable sixty-five minutes. Despite sundry sepia entertainers from the Duke's revue, "Jump for Joy," the band itself was, as always, the big news, whether showing off its soloists or weaving a subdued and subtle background to a vocal refrain...
Well, the other musical oasis around town is the Savoy Cafe out on Columbus Avenue, where most of the Ellington menage repaired almost every night after their last show. There Frankie Newton's seven-piece colored band holds forth these winter nights before an enthusiastic mixed audience which doesn't miss the little dance floor that isn't there. For the past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie...
...music can be either good or bad," he went on, "we try to play what we feel, and that of course makes it negroid." Ellington said that he was trying to establish an "unadulterated negro music...