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Based in New York, this 16 piece band plays the music of Ellington and other jazz composers world-wide, under the direction of bandleader, conductor and clinician David Berger. Mr. Berger has transcribed around 500 Ellington recordings, including approximately 50 available through Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington program.
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Listen to Sultans of Swing here
Four tunes from their October 2006 concert in Oslo. I had a little difficulty opening the files on line, but they worked fine if I downloaded them to my hard drive and opened them from there.
Contributed by Arne Neegaard- added 20070409
Sultans of Swing in rehearsal
Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower reviews David Berger's rehearsal in 2003.
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Masters of Ellingtonia (But Sultans of Swing are more than a nostalgia act).
The New Jersey Star-Ledger article describes Berger's group, and its regular appearances at Birdland in NYC.
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This little big-band (trumpet, 2 sax, 3 rhythm, plus female vocalist) presents the polish, heat, and energy of the great swing big-bands. Their original arrangements produce a big-band sound and make the group sound larger than six pieces. Their repertoire concentrates on classic big-band swing music, including many Duke Ellington and Count Basie numbers. They function professionally both as a concert jazz ensemble and a dance band.
Recognized for their impeccable musicianship and powerful swinging beat, The Swing Legacy has performed since 1991 throughout New England. Two highly acclaimed CDs present some of the most interesting and exciting items from their repertoire.
Contributed by Henry Francis - added 2011-12-057Eastern England's unique jazz orchestra led by Ellington scholar Michael Kilpatrick. This excellent band was featured at the Ellington 2008 conference of the Duke Ellington Study Group in London.
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The professional Laurent Mignard Duke Orchestra is based in France, specializing in Duke Ellington's music. It will play some 15 concerts in the 2011-2012 season.
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This is the website of Drummer/Arranger/Composer Tony Faulkner, leader of the Duke Ellington Repertory Orchestra, an undergraduate band at Leeds College of Music in the UK. Mr. Faulkner has a large library of Ellington charts, about 40 of which are in the band folders at any one time. DERO publicly performed A Drum is A Woman in 2005, the UK premiere of this rarely performed work.
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Amateur rehearsal/Ellington repertory band formed by David Palmquist (webmaster, Ellingtonweb.ca) in Delta BC
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Adrian Cho's professional orchestra based in Ottawa. Check out their delightful recordings by pressing the Listen button at the top of each page.
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Jazzin Dukes is a Swedish sextet with trumpet, tenor sax (doubling clarinet and bari sax), trombone, guitar, bass and piano. The group was formed in 1994 by trombonist Erling Torkelsson, and since 2001 the band has worked with vocalist Ann-Christin Hallgren. Namnet syftar på Ellington, som är gruppens viktigaste musikaliska förebild. Nästan all deras musik är hämtad från honom och hans krets av musiker. There are some nice sound clips on the "kyrkan" page.
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Band led by Ellington's grandson Edward K. Ellington II.
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Ellingtonia is a 9-piece band devoted to playing Ellington, based in Devon. Ellingtonia, formed by sax-player/arranger Ian Wellens, delivers the authentic sound of the 1930s throughout southwestern England. Booking information (and some really nice sound clips).
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FEEL is short for Far East Ellington Lovers - Japanese site. Includes sound files.
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This is the English language page of an Italian saxophone trio. The English page doesn't say much about what they have to do with Ellington's music, but perhaps the Italian page does. Click the flag to get there.
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This site is in Italian, but I think it is about a jazz orchestra that plays Ellington. " Portraits of Duke Ellington | Concerti ...Concerti sacri di duke Ellington.Sorge nel 1998 per volontā di un gruppo di 20 giovani musicisti, provenienti da esperienze musicali diverse ma accomunati da una spiccata passione per il jazz."
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Italian language Le Carozze Records site featuring this band
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Professional band under the direction of Richard Gillis. Duke-LYM member Bill Morton writes:"...the only community based professional jazz orchestra in Canada. Founded in 1997, it was in anticipation of his 100th anniversary in 1999, that the Orchestra presented it's first concert of Ellingtonia, in December of 1998. Since then, in addition to at least one Ducal/Strayhorn composition almost every concert, it has performed "the Nutcracker" at two Christmas concerts and will do so again this December 11 2005. A note of interest, one member of the WJO board of directors sang with Duke, Johnny Hodges and the Ellington Orchestra in its Easter 1970 presentation of "The Second Sacred Concert" in Winnipeg. He offerred to sponsor her singing career in New York."
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