http://intellectualmusician.com -Where Musicians Come To Think Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en http://intellectualmusician.com/eokin/adelaide-hall-1901-1993-by-earl-okin http://intellectualmusician.com/eokin/adelaide-hall-1901-1993-by-earl-okin#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 11:08:57 +0000 Earl Okin http://intellectualmusician.com/eokin/adelaide-hall-1901-1993-by-earl-okin Around the mid forties, when Duke Ellington was in London as a variety act at the London Palladium, his friend, the late Renee Diamond played him an old 78 of Duke’s ‘Merry-Go Round’ cut in the early Thirties. Duke’s response was ‘My! Did the band ever really sound as good as that!’ (more…)

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