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DESUK offers a selection of goods to members, and also to non-members.

Alternatively, you may pay by UK Sterling cheque made payable to DESUK. Please remit to:-

DESUK Treasurer

47 Yoxley Drive

Ilford

Essex

IG2 6PX

Binders for Blue Light. Keep three years (12 issues) of the newsletter safe and sound.

We have the last few remaining of the following...

DUKE ELLINGTON IN LONDON 1958 Double CD

Reissued for Ellington 2008. Last few copies.

50 Years on: the Ellington Band captured in concert in London in 1958.

Essential, and only previously available on a very limited edition LP issue for Ellington '88. £14 inc. shipping anywhere each.

VAL WISEMAN WITH MARTIN LITTON'S ELLINGTONIANS
SOPHISTICATED LADY: the Duke Ellington Songbook

A Lake Records release sponsored by DESUK, recorded in April 2008.

    1.  In a Mellotone
    2.  All Too Soon
    3.  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
    4.  Sophisticated Lady
    5.  Me and You
    6.  If You Were In My Place (What Would You Do?)
    7.  Swampy River
    8.  Just a Lucky So and So
    9.  Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
   10.  Mood Indigo
   11.  Hey Baby
   12.  Pitter Panther Patter
   13.  Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
   14.  Prelude to a Kiss
   15.  Take the 'A' Train

    7 - Piano solo.
   12 - Piano and bass duet.

     Val Wiseman (v)
     Martin Litton (p, arr.)
     Trevor Whiting (reeds)
     Julian Ferraretto (vn)
     Murray Salman (d/bass)
     Rod Brown (d)

Lovely album by six-piece led from the piano by one of the best pianists in the country with superb Val Wiseman singing Ellington's rich but rarely performed vocal repertoire. Notes by Alyn Shipton.

Single CD. Prices below include shipping to anywhere.

Treat yourself to a new-design high-quality DESUK-inscribed black-ink ball-point pen! Also an ideal gift!!

DESUK Pin lapel badges are available at just £1 each to Members!

Back issues of our quarterly newsletter Blue Light are available.

You may add them to the same shopping basket, and pay for them together with items from this page.

BRIAN PRIESTLEY
WHO KNOWS? - The Uncovered Ellington

This album by Brian Priestley includes 15 mostly less well known pieces by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, and takes its title from one of them.

Chronologically, they go from the last Sacred Concert in 1973 (My Love) all the way back to Duke's second-ever composition from c.1915, called What Are You Gonna Do (When the Bed Breaks Down)? As to their familiarity, the range is from the early 1940s' After All and Johnny Come Lately to the mysterious and unrecorded 1960s' East East by East, which might or might not have been intended as part of the 'Far East Suite.'

Recorded in July and October 2003, with sponsorship from DESUK, the programme includes solo, trio, quartet and quintet tracks featuring the leader (piano, arrangements) with Simon Wolfe (double bass), Steve Brown (drums), Frank Griffith (tenor sax, clarinet) and Bruce Adams (trumpet, flugel).

The CD is available at the following prices, including carriage worldwide.

MAIN STEM
ECHOES OF ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA

Seminal first CD by this fantastic British band.

ELLINGTON '97
THE BRITISH CONNEXION

Leeds, England, Conference Souvenir CD + Notes, issued in 1997.

BBC Broadcasts from 1939/40 and the complete London Decca session of 1933 are highlights. Essential!

We also offer the following items, all depicting Duke Ellington - samples are shown below.

All above prices carriage free.