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20 Jul 2008, 4:00 am
Duke Ellington stated 'no Negro could possibly be fooled by Porgy and Bess'. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 4:00 am
Duke Ellington stated 'no Negro could possibly be fooled by Porgy and Bess'. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 5:44 am
The D.C. area is steeped in the history of jazz, including being the birthplace of Duke Ellington. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 7:47 pm
The prosecuting attorney, Scott Ellington, said that the state still considered the men guilty. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 6:00 am
My great-grandmother lived in a house right off the end of Calvert Street Bridge (now the Duke Ellington Bridge), where the streetcar used to turn around. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 1:55 pm
You can hear him at his most vibrant on Clifford Brown and Max Roach (Emarcy/Universal, 1954), Thelonius Monk's Brilliant Corners (Riverside/Concord, 1956) and Money Jungle, in trio with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus (Blue Note/EMI, 1962), which Ben Ratliffe of the NYT aptly called "an odd record of aggression and calm," but which I never get tired of. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 3:37 pm
No, this isn't about synesthesia, that cross-over effect in the senses where letters in the alphabet can have colours and sounds can smell - if you're like Nabokov or Duke Ellington or Ludwig Wittgenstein. [read post]
9 May 2011, 7:00 am
Duke Ellington School: 3500 R ST, NW 16. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 2:19 pm
" [Related posts: Great Jazz Albums #1 (Hank Mobley), #2 (Horace Silver), #3 (Sonny Rollins), #4 (Sonny Clark), #5 (Dexter Gordon), #6 (Cannonball Adderley); #7 (Bill Evans), #8 (McCoy Tyner), #9 (Clifford Brown), #10 (Sinatra), #11 (Monk), #12 (Kenny Dorham), #13 (Coltrane), #14 (Duke Ellington), #15 (Miles Davis), #16 (Wayne Shorter), #17 (Dinah Washington); #18 (Sarah Vaughan); #19 (Stan Getz); #20 (Blue Mitchell); #21 (Gene Ammons); #22 (Art Blakey and the Jazz… [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 8:30 am
Favorite composers: Duke Ellington/Elvis Costello/Patty Griffin. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:55 am
Great recordings include: • Duke Ellington Live at the Blue Note • The Complete Imperial Sessions: Sonny Criss • The Rudy van Gelder Edition CDs of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Walter Davis Jr, Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, and more • Benny Green Live at the Village Vanguard • David… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 5:03 am
I wonder if he had prepared remarks in the event of winning.)The author of the Tor post suggests as a test, "that if the science fiction elements are removed and the story ceases to function, it’s probably science fiction," but I'm not so sure that this is meaningful, and am more inclined towards applying Duke Ellington's approach when he was asked to define jazz. [read post]
24 Dec 2011, 5:04 am
You can send your check to: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy The Duke Ellington Building 2121 Ward Ct, NW, 5th Floor Washington, DC 20037 A search at irs.gov (which I highly recommend any time you are considering making a donation) confirms that Rails to Trails Conservancy is on the IRS list of charitable organizations as a public charity. [read post]
12 Oct 2008, 10:00 am
Meehan, who lives in Ellington, admitted that between 2002 and 2007, she took cash advances on her personal credit cards of more than $1.4 million and around the same time began writing checks from the clients' funds account to pay those credit card bills. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 11:32 am
There was an immediate movement to save the theatre, which has hosted acts such as Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, and Lady Gaga. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 2:45 pm
Ellington of the Times Daily reports attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Tommy Douglas Arthur filed a petition last week asking the U.S. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 10:02 am
[Related posts: Great Jazz Albums #1 (Hank Mobley), #2 (Horace Silver), #3 (Sonny Rollins), #4 (Sonny Clark), #5 (Dexter Gordon), #6 (Cannonball Adderley); #7 (Bill Evans), #8 (McCoy Tyner), #9 (Clifford Brown), #10 (Sinatra), #11 (Monk), #12 (Kenny Dorham), #13 (Coltrane), #14 (Duke Ellington), #15 (Miles Davis), #16 (Wayne Shorter), #17 (Dinah Washington); #18 (Sarah Vaughan); #19 (Stan Getz); #20 (Blue Mitchell); #21 (Gene Ammons); #22 (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers);… [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 6:00 am
Description: VEH 1 WAS TRAVELING WB ON ELLINGTON AVE WHICH IS A GRAVEL ROAD VEH 1 TOPPED THE HILL AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED LOST CONTROL ENTERED THE SOUTH DITCH ROLLED SEVERAL TIMES EJECTING THE PASSENGERS RESULTING IN ONE FATALITY. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 1:58 pm
Whoever you find yourself with, as my good friend and LCA member Judge John Ellington would do, ask them “What’s your story? [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 7:59 am
Writes the NYT columnist David Leonhardt in email that I could unsubscribe from, but this is clearly excellent enough to stay my hand for the nonce: [read post]
