Word: ellington
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...biweekly Down Beat takes its jazz seriously and is not given to tossing off thoughtless accolades. But last week four-fifths of the magazine was devoted to one man, Edward Kennedy Ellington-the Duke. One tribute: "The first American composer to catch in his music the true jazz spirit...
Come On Home (Duke Ellington; Okeh). "Father, oh father, come home with me now" brought up to date. The Duke gets more tomtoms and wailing reeds into this one than he has in years, comes close to the free-wheeling style that made him famous...
...That Ain't Good (Ben Webster; Decca). The onetime Ellington saxophonist gives a well-padded version of one of the Duke's best...
...Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only two still carrying on. A future possibility: Portrait of New York (new music, to be composed by Duke Ellington, Vernon Duke, Meredith Willson, Don Gillis, Skitch Henderson). Cott is currently trying to line up General Douglas MacArthur for a television Bible-reading series, avers that "the general is interested...
Adman Jesse Ellington expressed his regrets over Rice's resignation, but insisted that Celanese Theater would nevertheless go ahead with Counsellor-at-Law, starring Alfred Drake and Ruth Hussey. Explained Ellington: "We've tried to lean over backward to live up to the best traditions of the theater and to avoid any of that political thing in casting. But when you get somebody who may cause a lot of bad publicity for your program, you have to be a little careful-it's an ordinary business safeguard...