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Dems Bulletin Duke Ellington Music Society THE INTERNATIONAL DEMS BULLETIN DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND HONORARY MEMBER: FATHER JOHN GARCIA GENSEL EDITOR: SJEF HOEFSMIT ASSISTED BY: ROGER BOYES Voort 18b, Meerle, Belgium Telephone: +32 3 315 75 83 Email: [email protected] If you are like me, you save your DEMS Bulletins and consult them with reasonable frequency. I often have trouble remembering when something was published in DEMS, thus I thought to make this Table of Contents for the DEMS Bulletins (with Sjef Hoefsmit's permission, of course). The items below are listed in the order that they were published in DEMS. Issues are arranged in reverse chronological order. Each item consists of the DEMS issue and the title and page number of each article. You can search the article titles using the search function on your internet brower, which in Netscape is Ctrl + F (both keys at the same time). Thus, if you remember reading about a good place to buy discographies somewhere in a DEMS Bulletin, hit Ctrl + F, type discog into the search window (you don't have to type the whole word) and hit enter. You will be taken to the following entry: 2001/3 DEMS 4 : Discographies available from Arthur Newman Here you learn that Arthur Newman is the man and that the information you seek is in the 2001 DEMS Bulletin, issue number 3, on page 4. Admittedly you can only find entries if you remember a word from the title of the DEMS article, but I still found this useful. I began with the most current DEMS Bulletin and am working backwards. If you wish to subscribe to this wonderful publication, write to: The Duke Ellington Music Society Voort 18b 2328 Meerle Belgium or send an email to: [email protected] 2001 DEMS Issue #3 2001/3 DEMS 1 : September 11, 2001 2001/3 DEMS 1 : Important News - Ellington Conference in Hawaii 2001/3 DEMS 1 : Important New Book - Something to Live For - The Music of Billy Strayhorn by Walter van de Leur [notice] 2001/3 DEMS 2 : At the End of 2001 [DEMS cassette CA-29] 2001/3 DEMS 3 : Change of Mind [movie poster reprinted] 2001/3 DEMS 4 : New Book - Adelaide Hall 2001/3 DEMS 4 : Discographies available [from Arthur Newman] 2001/3 DEMS 4 : Ellington: Beyond Categories of XX Century 2001/3 DEMS 4 : The Duke Ellington Reader 2001/3 DEMS 5-6 : Rex or Ray? An Internet discussion 2001/3 DEMS 6 : Collectors' item? 2001/3 DEMS 6 : Saddest Tale 2001/3 DEMS 7 : Blue Serge [music] 2001/3 DEMS 7 : The Mooche - 1oct28 2001/3 DEMS 7 : Unusual credits 2001/3 DEMS 8 : A re-issue on order 2001/3 DEMS 8 : Music America Loves Best 2001/3 DEMS 9 : Blue Serge [music] 2001/3 DEMS 9 : Missing early Ellington Recordings? 2001/3 DEMS 9 : How long is Loco Madi? 2001/3 DEMS 10 : Hamburg concert was on 29may50 2001/3 DEMS 10 : Nameless Hour 2001/3 DEMS 10 : The last Studio Session 78 rpm standard groove recording issued 2001/3 DEMS 11 : Blue Serge [diagram] 2001/3 DEMS 11 : Could Ben Webster play acetates? 2001/3 DEMS 12 : Broadcasts at the Library of Congress 2001/3 DEMS 12 : Paris - 20sep59 2001/3 DEMS 12 : Monk's Moods - Anthony Brown 2001/3 DEMS 13 : The Harlem Footwarmers 2001/3 DEMS 13 : Manchester, N.H. - 3jun47 2001/3 DEMS 13 : Larry Adler 2001/3 DEMS 14 : New Releases - Sugabeat S3Beat 301 - 3 CD set - Sir Duke - The classic Victor recordings 1940-1942 2001/3 DEMS 14 : New Releases - Stardust CLP 1138-2 - 2 CD set - DE and his Famous Orchestra - Cotton Club Anthology 1938 2001/3 DEMS 14 : New Releases - ... and His Mother Called Him Bill 2001/3 DEMS 14 : New Releases - The DETS CDs 2001/3 DEMS 15 : New Releases - Penny (E) New Sound - Ltd PYCD 253 - Duke Ellington - 2 CD set 2001/3 DEMS 15 : New Releases - Columbia/Legacy CK 85316 - Duke Ellington Love Songs 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - Bethlehem R2 74315 - Historically Speaking The Duke 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - High definition Jazz HDJ 326 (CD) - Duke Ellington Swings (1999) 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - Storyville 103 8341 - 2 CD set - Carnegie Hall - 11dec43 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - Storyville STCD 8324 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - Columbia 501654 2 - 2 CD set - Duke Ellington presents Ivie Anderson 2001/3 DEMS 16 : New Releases - Jazz Hour JHR 73504 - Rockin' In Rhythm 2001/3 DEMS 17 : New Releases - Bella Musica BMMC 26.4008 (MD) - Duke Ellington 2001/3 DEMS 17 : New Releases - Definitive 11170 - 4 CD box - DE - Complete Columbia and RCA Victor sessions with Ben Webster 2001/3 DEMS 17 : New Releases - Musica Jazz MJCD 1141 - Mary Lou's Idea - Mary Lou Williams 2001/3 DEMS 17 : New Releases - Musica Jazz MJCD 1140 - Rex Stewart - Take It Easy 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Avid AMSC 720 - double CD - A Centenary celebration 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Blue Moon 1028-1029-1030-1031-1032 - Johnny Hodges - The Complete 1941- 1953 Small Group Sessions 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Hep CD 1065 Sounds of Harlem Volume 1 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Naxos 86032-2 - Double Duke - Joe Temperley 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Arbors CD ARCD 19225 - The International All-Star Band - A Portrait of Duke 2001/3 DEMS 18 : Ellingtonia - Arbors CD ARCD 19226 - Manhattan Swing: Bucky Pizzarelli, John Bunch and Jay Leonhart - A Visit With The Duke 2001/3 DEMS 19 : Ellingtonia - A Touch of Elegance LP Columbia CL 1649 (Stereo CS 8449) Andre Previn trio 2001/3 DEMS 19 : Ellingtonia - Mainstem Duo Series Vol. 3 - MCD 0021 - Ellingtonian Tales - Kep Peplowski, John Horler, Phil Lee 2001/3 DEMS 19 : Ellingtonia - Over the Edge Records - Goin' Home - A Tribute to Duke Ellington 2001/3 DEMS 20-22 : Questions (Q) by Willie Timner (WT) and answers by Sjef Hoefsmit (SH) 2001/3 DEMS 22 : Desor small corrections 5004 2001/3 DEMS 22 : New Desor correction-sheets 2001/3 DEMS 23 : Blue Rose album dubbing sessions reprint 2001/3 DEMS 24-27 : The New Desor corrections 2001/3 DEMS 27 : Errors in Bulletin 01/2 2001/3 DEMS 28-30 : New Releases on Compact Disc by Jerry Valburn 2001/3 DEMS 31 : Paying instructions 2001/3 DEMS 32 : Your donations for DEMS in 2002 2001 DEMS Issue #2 2001/2 DEMS 1 : Sad News - Helen Oakley Dance 1913-2001 2001/2 DEMS 2 : Sad News - Anita Moore 1949-2001 2001/2 DEMS 2 : Sad News - Ken Rattenbury 1920-2001 2001/2 DEMS 2 -3 : Sad News - Al Hibbler 1915 -2001 2001/2 DEMS 3 : Mark Tucker Memorial Fund at CBMR 2001/2 DEMS 3 : Tape collectors 2001/2 DEMS 3 : The Benny Aasland Collection 2001/2 DEMS 3 : The Irving Jacobs Collection 2001/2 DEMS 4-9 : An open letter to Ms Sylvia Miller, Publisher, Routledge Group, [regarding A.H. 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