Ellington Orchestra Recorded Live
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dimmer, Dennis
label: Collection Creator
content: Brown, N.H.
label: Collection Creator
content: Barkin, Stanley
label: Collection Creator
content: Walburn, Jerry
label: Collection Creator
content: Lasker, Steven
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera and Related Audiovisual Materials
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content: Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera and Related Audiovisual Materials / Series 6: Miscellaneous
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Duration 2 hours, 30 minutes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1947-1949
container: label: Container
content: Box 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Audio
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Reference CD in Box 5
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Paper base, original tape box with tape; Fair sound quality with ambient crowd sounds in background. Vocalists can be clearly heard. The musicians are more difficult to hear.

The donor, Collin Mulvaney, obtained the tape from Russ Meinke, the sound engineer who recorded a live performance at a dance in Wichita, Kansas. He believes he made the tape sometime between 1947 and 1949. According to secondary sources Ellington was in Kansas in November 1946, October 1947, and January and February 1948. No documents in the Duke Ellington Collection corroborate this information or refer to the Wichita performance. 

The sound quality is fair, with ambient background sounds of the crowd. The lead vocalists were Al Hibbler and Kay Davis.

Songs include : "Trees"; Unknown blues song; "It Don't Mean a Thing"; "Ornithology";  "How High the Moon"; "Lover Man"; and "Solitude."