Duke Ellington Cavalcade, WWDC, Parts 9 and 11
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 11: Audiovisual Materials / 11.1: Sound Recordings / 11.1.5: Interviews
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content: 1 Sound discs (lacquer)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946 April 20
container: label: Container
content: Box 23, Folder 104.1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound discs (lacquer)
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content: In progress conversation of Willis Conover and Duke Ellington, with occasional commentary by Billy Strayhorn, Emerson Parker, Jerry Rhea, and Oscar Pettiford, during radio broadcast from Washington, D.C. hosted by Willis Conover 

Topics include: unissued recordings; plans for Watergate concert on June 6 sponsored by the Bakers Dozen; new and returning members of the band; plans for future dates; Ellington's "favorite" composition; early recordings and errors by critics and others in descriptions of them. 

Music: Excerpts of recording of Black, Brown and Beige 

Resumption of discussion: commentary by Ellington on Black Brown and Beige; jazz as a "very bad word"