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The Newsletter of the Duke Ellington Society (Uk) Volume 18 Number 2 G Summer 2011 BLUE LIGHT THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DUKE ELLINGTON SOCIETY (UK) VOLUME 18 NUMBER 2 G SUMMER 2011 UNKNOWN SESSION Reviewed on Page 2 Nil Significat Nisi Pulsatur HONORARY MEMBERS OF DESUK Alice Babs Art Baron Buster Cooper Herb Jeffries John Lamb Vincent Prudente Monsignor John Sanders Joe Temperley Editorial Clark Terry The good news is, I mailed out BL 18/1 only a few days into April, Derek Else thereby retrieving almost all the six-week delay with 17/4. Less good HONORARY MEMBERS SADLY NO was the collation error which led to a few of you receiving copies with LONGER WITH US pages 7 and 14 twice, and the central pages, 10 and 11, not at all. I sent Bill Berry (13 October 2002) out replacements as soon as I was told about them, from my spares Harold Ashby (13 June 2003) (every one of them flawless!) from the print run. It was annoying, but I Jimmy Woode (23 April 2005) was relieved that so few of you appear to have been affected. I’ll sharpen Humphrey Lyttelton (25 April 2008) up my final checking routine in future. A compensation was the kind Louie Bellson (14 February 2009) Joya Sherrill (28 June 2010) things you said about BL when reporting the flaw. * Letters or editorial material should Please renew your membership for 2011 now, if you still haven’t. The be addressed to: period of grace includes this issue, and I know the usual renewal forms Roger Boyes, 9 Chester Place, Great were not sent out with my reminders in the last two. But I have enclosed Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2TL one this time, for those of you who still need to renew, and this must be Phone: 01284-788200 Email: [email protected] the final reminder. There’s more information to help you, including the DESUK Website: address of Victor, our new Treasurer, on the blue inside rear cover. http://www.dukes-place.co.uk * At our recent AGM Derek Else retired from his posts as Membership Deadline for acceptance of copy for Secretary and Treasurer, and members expressed their gratitude and gave the next issue of Blue Light (Volume him a suitable send-off. In the early years Derek steered DESUK through 18/3) is Friday 2 September 2011 at least two serious crises, and while things have been much calmer in recent times he has continued to take care of a lot of the detailed INDEX management of the Society’s affairs. Happily, our efforts during the last year to secure replacements have been fruitful, and we are well placed to Inside Front Cover: Editorial move forward into a new era. It’s another reason to renew now, if you 1 Ellington 2012 have yet to do so. To continue to flourish, DESUK needs a strong 2 On Record membership base. Reports of the AGM events are on pages 7-9. 6 Whitley Bay 2011 7 Derek Else Retires; * 1963 Granada TV broadcast Within a day of mailing out BL 18/1 I read in Ellingtonia, the Newsletter 8 DESUK AGM of our sister society in Washington DC, news of an Ellington Conference 9 Performance: DESUK AGM to take place here, in the London area, in 2012. I have now received from 10 The Perfume Suite the organizers the information reproduced on the page opposite. Note 12 Temperley’s Tempo (part 2) that you should tell them of your interest; they need a sufficient level of 16 Book Review – Hi De Ho 17 Barrie Lee Hall; Brian Layton; support now, if the event is to go ahead as planned. The Old Apple Tree on Radio 3 * 18 Letters; The Origins of The Among the usual mixture of news and reviews in this BL is an article by Perfume Suite Geoff Smith on the Perfume Suite, Duke’s earliest composition in suite 19 Events Calendar form (p10), and the balance of Bernard McAlinden’s survey of the career 20 Ads; Other Societies; of Joe Temperley (p12). Our reviews include a first for BL, a review of a Contacting DESUK newly issued LP set. LPs! What goes around comes around, as they say. Inside Back Cover: Letter to The Guardian; Membership Renewal * Back Cover: DESUK Committee I only realised when a member pointed it out to me at the AGM that Nil Minutes, January Significat Nisi Pulsatur was missing from the front cover of 18/1. The omission was entirely unintentional. It happened because the cover picture was so large. It has been rectified this time. Roger Boyes The 21st International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference ELLINGTON 2012 Following the success of Ellington 2008, a group of DESUK Members is in the process of organising a return to the London area of the International Duke Ellington Conferences. In prospect are four days of authoritative presentations, panels and performances, including further research on the early days; presentations by well- known authors and on under-appreciated Ellington men such as Ray Nance, Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Hamilton; New York musician and educator Frank Griffith presenting on what Duke means to him; Duke Ellington in the 21st Century; memories of Duke by people who met him, etc., etc. As a DESUK Member, we need your commitment and ask you to send us a £40 deposit (refundable) to reserve your place. Fees are expected to be £175, may well be less but will not exceed £200. But we do need you to pledge £40 now as your expression of intended attendance. This will be returned if we do not receive sufficient support to enable the event to go ahead. Those responding to this appeal will become our "founding delegates" and receive due credit in our programme. When sending your money, do let us know your thoughts for subjects to be studied and music to be played. We will have an Ellington potpourri set of mini-presentations: perhaps you would like to contribute your own presentation? Wednesday evening – Sunday, May 23-27, 2012 Please contact Antony Pepper ([email protected], 01342 314053) or Geoff Smith ([email protected], 01483 769051) for further information. Book online: www.Ellington2012.org 1 The reviews by Graham Colombé and Steve Voce are reproduced with the kind On Record permission of the authors and the Editor of Jazz Journal. DUKE ELLINGTON triumphant culmination of the small-band music which AT THE BAL MASQUÉ Duke had been creating since the mid-30s. Experts differ as to whether Paul Gonsalves took (1)Alice Blue Gown (vdL); Who’s Afraid Of The part, though the rich sound of the ensembles makes it Big Bad Wolf?*; Got A Date With An Angel**; entirely feasible. If he was present, it is surprising that Poor Butterfly+ (vdL); Satan Takes A Holiday**; he never solos. He’s listed on the CD’s personnel, but The Peanut Vendor+; Satin Doll; Lady In Red the inlay note steers deftly round the issue. Essentially, (vdL); Indian Love Call++ (vdL); The Donkey six tracks, the LP’s side 1, celebrated the recent return Serenade (vdL); Gypsy Love Song* (vdL); Laugh, to the band of Lawrence Brown; the second six focus Clown, Laugh**. mainly on Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney. Stanley (2) Everything But You; Black Beauty; All Too Dance’s original LP note talked of ‘mood music on Soon; Something To Live For; Mood Indigo; relatively familiar themes’, but apart from one, the Creole Blues; Don’t You Know I Care?; A Flower titles chosen are all unhackneyed. And as Mood Is A Lovesome Thing; Mighty Like The Blues; Indigo has superb Lawrence Brown, never previously Tonight I Shall Sleep; Dual Highway; Blues. associated with this song, it too seems as fresh as the (77:25) trees in springtime. (1)Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Dual Highway may be familiar Willie Cook, Harold ‘Shorty’ to you as Something Saxual. Baker (tp), Ray Nance (tp, Creole Blues is the lyrical vn); Quentin Jackson, John Whetsel theme from the Victor Sanders, Britt Woodman (tb); version of Creole Rhapsody. Jimmy Hamilton, Paul While Duke always welcomed an Gonsalves, Russell Procope, opportunity to say something Bill Graham, Harry Carney fresh on Something To Live For, (reeds); Duke Ellington (p), Leonard Feather’s 1938 Mighty Jimmy Woode (b). Sam Like The Blues seems an odd Woodyard (d). NYC, 31 choice. Why the Maestro revived March, *1 April, **20 March, it at this point is an intriguing +24 March, ++26 March; all question. It’s a pretty theme 1958. On 31 March and 1 though, and not one of Feather’s April, add Johnny Hodges. generic blues lines; its treatment On 1 April, omit Bill Graham. here is very beautiful. (vdL): acc. to Van de Leur (2002), these scores As for Bal Masqué, here the joke went way beyond are Billy’s, not Duke’s. the LP’s title. It is really an extended musical jest in (2)Ray Nance (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny which Duke takes the part of a society bandleader, on a Hodges (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney clutch of tunes of which only Satin Doll and The (bs, bcl), Duke Ellington (p), Aaron Bell (b), Sam Peanut Vendor (just about) have Ellington Woodyard (d). Hollywood, 14 July 1960. associations. In keeping with his role, he delivers Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55504 splendidly spiced-up cocktail piano on every number. The piano threads the entire sequence, but a less This is a welcome reissue of two late Columbia LPs. welcome second unifying thread is the canned Critics were sniffy about At The Bal Masqué, and the ‘applause’, a clumsy attempt to suggest a live event.
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