Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour was musician's midnight (9 a.m.). Hulking, disheveled Roger "Brick" Fleagle-an ace arranger for such name bands as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
...Duke Ellington and his concert orchestra are scheduled to give a semi-classical program in Symphony Hall tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. The Duke, under the sponsorship of Spencer Fuller, will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former stars will not be on hand, his presence at the piano will be a notable occasion. Among his other claims to fame is the fact that he was the first popular musician ever to appear in Paine Hall, the University's music center...
...music and literature were strung over the battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning to cultivate an appreciative taste...