and a girl singing with a flower in her hair maybe

Shooting more breeze with jazz storm Sonny Rollins in advance of his Bass Concert Hall stand on Sunday.

"...routinely finds that they don’t even know the names Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Should the know it, or..."

April 30, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'Porgy and Bess': A Select Chronology

The history of Gershwin's opera, from its conception in 1926 to its reinvention in Austin in 2008

"...1956: Arranged by Russell Garcia and Duke Ellington, the second "complete" recording of the opera features..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

How Low Can You Go? Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941)

In Box

"...John Kirby with Fletcher Henderson, and Wellman Braud with Duke Ellington recording under the guise of Joe Turner &..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Better Git It in Your Soul

Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.

"...Ory. An early and continuing influence on him was Duke Ellington. In 1946-48, he was with Lionel Hampton, who..."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Calling Mom

An essay on the author's mother and her generation of African-American women

"...Music? She briefly dated Duke Ellington's son, if that counts for anything. But Puff..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...Ernie Mae Miller. "They had nice bands there -- Duke Ellington, Count Basie. It must have been the Forties..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Minister of Grace

At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.

"...Cotton Club, where they performed with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington; Broadway, where they appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

A Little Late, For Bix

"...Times ballyhooed the 100th anniversaries of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, but ignored Bix's. If he'd been black would..."

May 16, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Twenty Flight Rock

Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

"...dance bands. Not surprisingly, his heroes were Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. Some of Ellison's most poignant..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Rhapsodies In Black: Music and Words From The Harlem Renaissance (Rhino)

"...a subway ride uptown to Sugar Hill to visit Duke Ellington, Harlem was the epicenter of an extraordinary blossoming..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Steve Turre In the Spur of the Moment (Telarc)

"...Way You Look Tonight" are ballads, while another, Turre's "Duke Rays," is reminiscent of Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow..."

July 14, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Un Dios

"...celebrating centennials, Gershwin ("Embraceable You," "Rhapsody in Blue") and Duke Ellington ("Caravan") -- yet a work whose ambition lies..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Slouching Towards Gomorrah

At the Intersection of Jazz and Lounge

"...and popular form of the music. Later that decade, Duke Ellington came along and ushered in the big band..."

June 6, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Distributor Capped!

"...jazz catalog, which includes the works of Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Sarah Vaughan among others. The..."

June 14, 1996 Music Column

Queenie Pie

A slice of UT's Duke Ellington opera “Queenie Pie”

"...revisit 1920s Harlem – in Technicolor stereo. With the Duke Ellington Orchestra pouring the sonic champagne...."

April 21, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Innovators

Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar

"...to do with their being less well known than Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and therefore less likely to..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Columbia/Legacy)

Reissues

"...included not only Goodman's band, but also musicians from Duke Ellington's and Count Basie's outfits. The concert, put on..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Postmarks

Barrientos Misrepresented

"...There is no question that the music of Duke Ellington deserves mention in the Chronicle, in fact the..."

May 7, 1999 Column

The Don Diego Trio Sends Greetings From Austin

Vittorio Bongiorno follows a rockabilly band from Italy to Texas

"...me on Facebook after reading my fourth novel, The Duke in Sicily (a fictional story about the real Duke..."

April 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Secrets to Tony Bennett’s Success

What keeps the crooner going? Loving his job, and painting

"...been a major creative pursuit of his ever since Duke Ellington encouraged him. “Don't do one thing, do two,”..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Music Post by Robert Faires

The Watchmaker's Song

Ventana Ballet's playful take on The Nutcracker lets audiences in on the action and brings a new magic to the familiar ballet

"...because of its use of The Nutcracker Suite by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; that jazzy reinvention of Tchaikovsky's..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Journeyman Neal Schon

Definitely progressive fusion rock

"...band in our living room, and they were playing Ellington, Basie, Stan Getz. All that early stuff, Oscar Peterson,..."

May 17, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Butler School of Music

Two concerts – one by Harvey Pittel, one for the late Rose Taylor – pay tribute to 'living in a song'

"...jazz and popular recordings, so I grew up hearing Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman,..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tap That Nut

In Tapestry's Of Mice & Magic, dance is more than the medium; it's the message

"...cowbells, pennywhistles, and silly lyrics, that sweet music that Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn were inspired to spice up..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Centennial Collection

Gift guide

"...live 1941 radio broadcasts from the Blanton-Webster edition of Duke Ellington's Orchestra. There are also unreleased live tracks on..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...one story after another about how artists ranging from Duke Ellington to bossa nova great João Gilberto went out..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Jazz's Generational Divide

The IAJE vision of jazz's future.

"...even simulcasting Jazz, yet refusing to play Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, or any other pre-Sixties music from the series..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Jazz: By the Episode

"...international star. The origins of the big-band era, spotlighting Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, and the effects of the..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Some of That Jazz

Compared to What?

"...have always been innovators, so that Miles Davis and Duke Ellington are immeasurably more important aesthetically than Marsalis, who..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Books Feature by Harvey Pekar

Record Reviews

"...last year's even better Prelude to a Kiss: The Duke Ellington Album, Bridgewater's latest project tributes Ella Fitzgerald, and..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Review

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