Sound Recordings
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1945-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0415, Subseries 11.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Master open reel tapes and reference audio cassettes exist for all of the sound recordings. Only reference cassettes can be used. The box numbers listed are for the reference cassettes.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries is divided into nine subseries. 

Subseries 11.1.1: includes various Duke Ellington Concerts from 1945 through 1952 and is arranged in chronological order. The concerts were recorded at the Civic House Opera in Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and radio stations WWDC, WJZ, and WABC in Washington, DC and New York, respectively. 

Subseries 11.1.2: Duke Ellington Volumes 1 - 58 is an anthology of Duke Ellington organization recordings roughly arranged by the collection creators in chronological order (ca. 1926- 1940). The series is listed in order by volume number. 

Subseries 11.1.3: is Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Included here are compositions created for or by members of the Duke Ellington organization including recordings of a small combo lead by Billy Strayhorn.  Duke Ellington Jazz Society Guest Talks 1-8 and 10 - 21 (ca,1960-1964) consist of comments and discussions of guests invited to the Duke Ellington Society meetings in (New York). Contained among the materials are interviews/discussions of Clark Terry, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance, Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Mercer Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn, among others. Each session includes one to four tapes. 

Subseries 11.1.4: Interviews (ca 1946-66) are five tapes that appear to be from radio programs. Tapes one and two are part of the show Cavalcade from April, 1946. Tape three is the U.S. Savings Bond radio program, "Guest Star" in which Ellington was the guest in October 1950. Tape four is an air check from an interview by Joe Di Natale in 1966. 

Subseries 11.1.5: Miscellaneous are Alice Babs with the Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Ella Fitzgerald recording sessions, performances by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and the Ruth Ellington James show of May, 1952. This series is a mixture of instrumental and vocal works composed by Ellington and works that may have been performed on Ellington programs at some time. Many of the performers in this series are not identified in or on the recordings. 

Subseries 11.1.6: Non-Ellington Materials encompass recordings that appear to have no relationship to the Ellington organization. Among them are included some works of Richard Strauss, Henry Busse, and Claude Debussy. 

Subseries 11.1.7: 16" Transcription Discs (original)