Louise Gibbs

LG sings Ellington with the Frank Griffith Nonet for the 21st International Ellington Study Group Conference 2012 (see www.Ellington2012.0rg). Besides the presence of musical luminaries, Darius Brubeck, Claude Bolling, and musicians, listeners, writers with serious addictions to the Ellington/Strayhorn oeuvre, the conference (23-27 May in Woking, Surrey) presents an array of events involving recordings, films, discussion and live performance.  Likely tunes for May 25th menu: Rhumbop (from Drum is a Woman); Lush Life (both arr. T. Faulkner); It Don’t Mean a Thing and C Jam Blues (both arr. F. Griffith)