The University of Boulder, Colorado, is
where Glenn Miller studied and met his wife to be, Helen Burger. The University now houses the Glenn Miller Archive. A little over twelve months ago, the Archive at the American Research
Center, University of Colorado acquired the Ed Burke Collection. You can read
about the collection here.
Ed Burke’s is a familiar name to collectors
of music from the swing era, that glorious period when jazz and popular song
were synonymous and, for the casual listener, the era with which Duke
Ellington’s music is most closely associated.
Ed Burke’s Ellington collection comprises,
apparently, quite a significant tranche of his entire holdings. Borrowing
original transcription discs from radio stations, Burke transferred them
meticulously to reel-to-reel tape and issued many air shots on his own
Soundcraft and Jazz Hour labels.
Click on the link below, and this will take
you to the page where two Ellington recordings can be heard as MP3 files. Just
A Settin’ And A Rockin’ and Clementine were recorded at the
Zanzibar Club in October, 1945. You can listen to the two tracks here.
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