Events

Our AGM is took place on Saturday the 1st of June in central London. Congratulations to our newly-elected committee, consisting of:

• Chairman: Antony Pepper
• Vice-Chairman: Quentin Bryar
• Secretary: Charlie Dyson
• Treasurer: Bob Littlefair
• Membership Secretary: Charlie Dyson
• Meetings Organiser: Antony Pepper
• Publicity Officer: Ian Bradley
• Archive Officer: Pedro Cravinho
• Artistic/Academic Adviser: Frank Griffith
• Blue Light Editor: Gareth Evans
• George Duncan

Farewell and many thanks to our outgoing chairman Michael Coates.

The Duke Ellington Society Of Sweden (DESS) has announced a virtual Ellington conference for 2022.

Following up on the success of Ellington Meeting 2021, DESS and DESScafé have decided to organize an Ellington Meeting also in 2022.

It will take place in the last week of April and have sessions on April 25, 26, 28 and 29. Each session will be from 7 to 10 PM CEST.

More details on the DESS website. See you there!

Our much-delayed Annual General Meeting 2021 took place at the Model Railway Club, London, on Saturday the 16th of October. There was unfortunately no AGM in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Congratulations to our newly-elected committee, consisting of:

• Chairman: Michael Coates
• Vice-Chairman: Antony Pepper
• Secretary: Charlie Dyson
• Treasurer: Grant Elliot
• Membership Secretary: Michael Coates
• Meetings Organiser: Antony Pepper
• Archive Officer: Pedro Cravinho
• Artistic/Academic Adviser: Frank Griffith
• Blue Light Editor: Gareth Evans
• George Duncan
• Quentin Bryar
• Roger Boyes

We’re all particularly delighted to see Gareth Evans take over the reins as editor of Blue Light.

Post-meeting entertainment

After the formalities, members were entertained by the Frank Griffith Trio with Frank on tenor sax and clarinet, Colin Oxley guitar and Dave Green on bass. Jazz Journal’s Leon Nock was there and you can read his review here.

The Duke Ellington Society Of Sweden (DESS) has announced a virtual Ellington conference for 2021.

Duke Ellington Society of Sweden (DESS) and DESScafé will organise an Ellington 2021 Meeting April 29 and May 3, 5, 7.

It is a Zoom-based event building on the experience of DESScafé launched in October last year as a place for DESS members to meet and listen to Ellington music.

More details on the DESS website. See you there!

Birmingham is hosting 2020’s Documenting Jazz conference in January.

Birmingham City University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Documenting Jazz conference, to be held on 16–18 January 2020. Now in its second year, Documenting Jazz brings together colleagues from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz.

More details at documentingjazz.com

Georgetown University in Washington, DC has issued a call for papers for their upcoming conference, running from March 11-15, 2020.