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THE DUKE ELLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
 
 
WE TOAST THE COLLABORATION OF
DUKE ELLINGTON AND DJANGO REINHARDT: 
DJANGO and DJUKE – A Celebration of the Jazz Guitar

Sunday, June 15 at 2:30 PM
FREE! At the Bank Street Book Store – Broadway and 112th St.  
 
Join guitarist Marc Daine and Mercedes Ellington,
plus other talents, as we pay homage to this legendary Gypsy musician!
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Breaking News! Ellington in New York City 2016
Mercedes Ellington, Guest of Honor at the 22nd International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference in Amsterdam, is proud to announce that the 23rd International Conference will be held in 2016 in New York City, produced by The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts. Planning begins immediately. Watch this space as we progress. 

Graveside Music

 
 
Honoring Ellington at The Woodlawn Cemetery on May 24
Mercedes Ellington, family, and friends paid tribute to the 40th anniversary of Ellington's passing with the laying of a wreath and much more! Art Baron (trombone), James Zollar (trumpet), Mark Gross (sax) and Jennifer Vincent (bass) from AFTER MIDNIGHT were on hand to play, while Brothers from Duke's fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, conducted a service and presented a proclamation honoring Ellington. The surprise of the day was the spontaneous appearance of a group of swing dancers paying homage at the nearby grave of dance legend Frankie Manning. The group came bounding over and began to dance to the music when it wafted in their direction. It was a real happening and a wonderful tribute to The Maestro. He would have loved it madly.
 
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Duke Ellington Way
It was an exciting afternoon on June 4th asMercedes Ellington and the cast of AFTER MIDNIGHT unveiled Duke Ellington Way at Broadway and 47th Street. Art Baron, trombonist, who played in the last Ellington-led band was on hand, along with Dule Hill, Karine Plantandit, Jared Grimes, Adriane Lenox, and many other great talents appearing in the show. The event was widely covered in the media and certainly made a large street crown jump for joy!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO WARREN CARLYLE, 
WINNER OF THE TONY AWARD FOR BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: AFTER MIDNIGHT
 
IT'S A GREAT SHOW!  DON'T MISS IT!  SAVE 35% WITH 
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Broadway’s Cotton Club Musical features Ellington 
and Ellington-arranged music, performed by a superlative cast of musicians, singers and dancers.    

 

 

And Don't Forget These New CDs from the Manhattan School of Music

Symph Elling

THE SYMPHONIC ELLINGTON, led by Justin DiCioccio, features Ellington's rarely performed orchestral works, and QUE VIVA HARLEM, led by Bobby Sanabria, has Ellington''s “Oclupaca” and Billy Strayhorn's last work, "Blood Count." Both CDs/downloads are available from Jazzheads.comamazon.com and iTunes.apple.com 
 

 

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The mission of THE DUKE ELLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS is 
to preserve, promote and further the music and philosophy 
of this American genius through performance and education. 
Please see us at www.thedukeellingtoncenter.org and Like us on Face Book: www.facebook.com/TheDukeEllingtonCenter

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There''s a lot more upcoming from 
THE DUKE ELLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 

 
Your ongoing support and commitment to our mission is a
vital part of the work.  
Please contribute via PayPal at: http://tinyurl.com/kdoylpk
 
YOUR DONATION IS FULLY TAX DEDUCTIBLE
 

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Grammy-winner Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks have played in New York nightclubs appeared in films (The Cotton Club, The Aviator, Finding Forrester, Revolutionary Road, and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and for concerts at the Town Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center and the Newport Jazz Festival.  Other recording projects include soundtracks for Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, Tamara Jenkins’s The Savages, Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd, Sam Mendes’s Away We Go, Michael Mann’s film Public Enemies, and John Krokidas’s feature, Kill Your Darlings; along with HBO’s Grey Gardens, Todd Haynes’s HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce and an upcoming Haynes’ film called Carol. The Nighthawks are also seen and heard in the USA Network series Royal Pains and the PBS series Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook.
 
A Brooklyn native, Vince Giordano’s passion for this music and the people that made it began at age 5. He has amassed an amazing collection of over 60,000 band arrangements, 1920s and 30s films, 78 rpm recordings and jazz-age memorabilia. Giordano sought out and studied with important survivors from the period: Whiteman’s hot arranger Bill Challis; drummer Chauncey Morehouse; and bassist Joe Tarto. Giordano’s knowledge, passion, and commitment to authenticity led him to create a sensational band of like-minded players, the Nighthawks.
 
Giordano has single handedly kept alive an amazing genre of American music that continues to spread the joy and pathos of an era that shaped our nation. This summer, Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks will perform at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing; Town Hall’s American premiere of Cole Porter’s La Ambassadeur Review; Music Mountain; Old Westbury Gardens; Kingsborough College; Pier 84’s Moon Dance; the Newport Jazz Festival; Morgan Park in Great Neck; and Levitt Pavillion in Westport, CT. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks can be heard every Monday and Tuesday at Iguana NYC.
 

This evening’s program is the last before our summer recess. We will resume either in September or October. Mailing list members will be notified of our first meeting by Labor Day.
 
HAVE A HAPPY SUMMER!
 

 

DIRECTIONS TO THE SONIC ARTS CENTER
Subway: Take the 1 train to 137th Street City College and walk north to 140th St. & Broadway,
then go east to 140th St. & Convent Avenue. Take the A, B, C, or D trains to 145th St, go south on St. Nicholas to 141st St, (one long block), then west one block to Convent Avenue, and south one more block to 140th & Convent Avenue.
Bus: M4 and M5 on Broadway; M 100, 101 on Amsterdam Ave (one block West of Convent Avenue.)

The Sonic Arts Center at CCNY offers 4-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Music with a concentration in Music and Audio Technology. Their program provides an in-depth curriculum emphasizing real-world skills with a project-based approach. Students enjoy a well-rounded program, with emphasis on audio technology, music theory, orchestration, and history to help them compete in a field that today demands
an ever-growing and highly diverse skill set.
 
All ARSC NY Chapter meetings are free and open to the public.
Voluntary contributions to help defray our expenses are welcome!
 
To join ARSC, visit http://www.arsc-audio.org
 
 
 

 

 




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