Word: ellington
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...prevailing integrationist theme made its most remarkable inroad at last week's Newport Jazz Festival. Folk is strictly music non grata at Newport. But there stood Duke Ellington singing about King and Bull Connor...
...Newport could remember the last occasion when Ellington had been moved enough to sing in public. What's more, the Duke himself had written the lyrics...
Died. David Ellington Snodgrass, 68, peppery dean of San Francisco's Hastings College of Law who took on the rundown school in 1940, made it a policy to hire only teachers older than 65, snagged so many sprightly deans emeriti forced out of other schools by retirement rules that Hastings today rates as one of the country's top law schools; following heart surgery; in San Francisco...
...extraordinary musical events marked Saturday nights's concert: the music of Sonny Rollins and his meeting with Coleman Hawkins, and the performance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra...
...Duke Ellington is generally regarded as one of the two or three greatest figures in the history of jazz. He showed why he deserves his reputation Saturday night. None of the usual labels apply to the Duke. He doesn't play Dixieland, he doesn't play bop; he plays a brand of music which is his own, and which has survived decades of fads. Although he uses techniques which have gone out of style, such as the wa-wa trumpet mute, Ellington never sounds dated. It is not so much that he has changed with the times; the times...