Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993
Memories of Ellington
By Murray Kempton
The Eleventh International Duke Ellington Conference last August marked the fiftieth anniversary of the master's first concert at Carnegie Hall. One of the penalties of going on too long past the Lord's allotment is that more and more of what still seems significant happened fifty years ago. Such may have been the case with most of the Ellington votaries gathered at the Times Square Holiday Inn. The sight of them subdued the visitor's joy with melancholy images of the graves lying between us all and the thirteen years before the fiftieth anniversary of Ellington at Newport.
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