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...VINTAGE SERIES (RCA Victor) offers classic jazz and blues recordings cleaned up and rereleased. So far, Duke Ellington, Leadbelly, Jelly Roll Morton, Isham Jones and Coleman Hawkins have had a record each. Almost all are performances that have been completely unavailable for two decades or more...
...This is my greatest opportunity," beamed Duke Ellington, 66. "I'd be afraid to come in if I didn't believe in what I was doing. The cathedral might fall on my head." Buttressing the Duke's belief at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral were Dean Julian Bartlett and California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, who think that the Sept. 16 experimental concert of Ellington's specially composed sacred music will be one of their "greatest opportunities" to "display the glory of God's creation." The music will be based...
...gleaned from themes by Rachmaninoff. Then there is a pair of transubstantiated movies: Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria will become Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon. The Blue Angel, as Sugar City, relocates to New Orleans, with Walter Slezak and Lilo. The composer: Duke Ellington...
...Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long, Long Ago-Go. But the most popular of all is a Jewish discothèque in The Bronx called the Let My People...
During the 13 hours of the festival, Robert Jeffrey's lithe young dancers performed on the premises, and Mr. Edward K. Ellington (as Duke's invitation read) led his 15-piece band. Catherine Drinker Bowen read a passage from Yankee from Olympus, her memorable biography of Mr. Justice Holmes. It had to do with the thrills felt by Holmes's wife Fanny upon her arrival in Washington and her first dinner at the White House, where she was enthusiastically greeted by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Bowen had had some qualms about picking that particular passage: it might...