Duke Ellington UW–Madison Residency 50th Anniversary Celebration
June 17, 2022
Concert and Panel Discussion: Duke Ellington UW Residency 50th Anniversary Celebration
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, June 17, 2022
5:30-10:30pm
Hamel Music Center, UW–Madison, 740 University Ave
Talk: “Duke and Paul” by Patricia Willard
Free and Open to the Public
Sunday, June 19, 2022
1:30-2:30pm
Memorial Union Play Circle, 800 Langdon St.
These two events are in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Duke Ellington’s 1972 UW–Madison Residency, and are part of the 2022 Madison Jazz Festival, presented by Arts + Literature Laboratory and Wisconsin Union Theater. We aren’t among the sponsors, but we want to acknowledge the significance of both the residency and this celebration. UW–Madison’s School of Music hosted Duke Ellington and his orchestra for its Duke Ellington Festival, also billed as “Duke Ellington Week,” which included five days of concerts, workshops and masterclasses in what would be the longest university residency of Ellington’s career.
June 17 Concert and Panel Discussion Schedule:
5:30pm: Sun Prairie and Middleton High School Jazz Bands perform Duke’s music with Guest Artist Victor Goines
7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Emeritus Professor Jim Latimer (organizer of the 1972 Ellington Residency), award-winning jazz journalist and former Ellington publicist Patricia Willard, and former Ellington vocalist and current Madison resident Jane Coyne
8:30pm: Concert of Duke Ellington’s music, including The Uwis Suite (composed for the 1972 residency), performed by the UW-Madison Jazz Faculty and Alumni Band
June 19 Talk Details:
1:30pm: Jazz journalist, historian, and former Ellington publicist Patricia Willard will share her first-person account of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra being at UW–Madison 50 years ago. She was here for the residency as a student and as a journalist for DownBeat.
The June 17 Panel Discussion is a reprise of sorts of the Panel Talk the Mead Witter School of Music presented in April, when Lecturer of Ethnomusicology Luci Mok hosted Emeritus Professor of Music James Latimer and Jane Coyne to reminisce on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Duke Ellington UW–Madison residency. Having Patricia Willard on hand promises to enhance the memories being shared!
Speaking of Patricia Willard’s memories, she published an account of the Duke Ellington Festival, along with photos she took, in the October 12, 1972 issue of DownBeat under the title “Love and Learn: The Ellingtonians at UW.” We have the issue in our holdings, but it’s not available online via any of the full-text databases to which we subscribe.
We look forward to new memories being made as old ones are shared and Duke Ellington’s music is performed!
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DUKE ELLINGTON UW RESIDENCY 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Location: Hamel Music Center Date: June 17th, 2022 Time: 5:30-10:00pm Admission: FREE
Location: Hamel Music Center Date: June 17th, 2022 Time: 5:30-10:00pm Admission: FREE
What's Going On?
UW’s Mead Witter School of Music celebrates the golden anniversary of Duke Ellington’s five-day residency in July 1972. The event schedule includes 5:30pm: Sun Prairie and Middleton High School Jazz Bands perform Duke’s music with Guest Artist Victor Goines; 7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Emeritus Professor Jim Latimer(organizer of the 1972 Ellington residency), award-winning jazz journalist and former Ellington publicist Patricia Willard, and former Ellington vocalist and current Madison resident Jane Coyne; 8:30pm: Concert of Duke Ellington's music, including his “UWIS Suite” (composed for the 1972 residency), performed by the UW-Madison Jazz Faculty and Alumni Band (confirmed musicians include saxophonists Les Thimmig, Anders Svanoe, Nick Berkhout, Alex Charland, and Zach Ramirez; trumpeters Dave Cooper, Dan Cross, and Nate Schmidt; trombonists Nat McIntosh, Tom Kelley, and Cole Bartels; pianist Johannes Wallmann; bassist Peter Dominguez; drummer Matt Endres; and special guest vocalist Jane Coyne.
Event Schedule:
5:30pm: Sun Prairie and Middleton High School Jazz Bands with Victor Goines
7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Jim Latimer, Patricia Willard, & Jane Coyne
8:30pm: Duke Ellington's UWIS Suite performed by the UW-Madison Jazz Faculty and Alumni Band
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UW’s Mead Witter School of Music celebrates the golden anniversary of Duke Ellington’s five-day residency in July 1972. The event schedule includes 5:30pm: Sun Prairie and Middleton High School Jazz Bands perform Duke’s music with Guest Artist Victor Goines; 7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Emeritus Professor Jim Latimer(organizer of the 1972 Ellington residency), award-winning jazz journalist and former Ellington publicist Patricia Willard, and former Ellington vocalist and current Madison resident Jane Coyne; 8:30pm: Concert of Duke Ellington's music, including his “UWIS Suite” (composed for the 1972 residency), performed by the UW-Madison Jazz Faculty and Alumni Band (confirmed musicians include saxophonists Les Thimmig, Anders Svanoe, Nick Berkhout, Alex Charland, and Zach Ramirez; trumpeters Dave Cooper, Dan Cross, and Nate Schmidt; trombonists Nat McIntosh, Tom Kelley, and Cole Bartels; pianist Johannes Wallmann; bassist Peter Dominguez; drummer Matt Endres; and special guest vocalist Jane Coyne.
Event Schedule:
5:30pm: Sun Prairie and Middleton High School Jazz Bands with Victor Goines
7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Jim Latimer, Patricia Willard, & Jane Coyne
8:30pm: Duke Ellington's UWIS Suite performed by the UW-Madison Jazz Faculty and Alumni Band
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"DUKE AND PAUL" BY PATRICIA WILLARD
Location: UW Memorial Union Play Circle, 800 Langdon St. Date: June 19th, 2022 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Admission: FREE
What's Going On?
Location: UW Memorial Union Play Circle, 800 Langdon St. Date: June 19th, 2022 Time: 1:30-2:30pm Admission: FREE
What's Going On?
Patricia Willard will present "Duke and Paul" on Sunday, June 19, 2022, 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the Memorial Union Play Circle. This event is free and open to the public. Jazz historian Patricia Willard will share first-person account of Duke Ellington and his orchestra at UW-Madison 50 years ago, while a student as well as a journalist for Downbeat. Reflecting on Duke's week in residence, the hour will conclude with video of Duke and Paul Gonsalves performing "Happy Reunion" in Mills Hall on July 21, 1972.
Patricia Willard is a writer, historian, photojournalist, concert producer, archivist and research consultant who, for more than 25 years was associated with Duke Ellington as editor, researcher and West Coast public relations counsel. In July 1972, she independently registered as a student for the University of Wisconsin Duke Ellington Festival and covered the week-long event for Downbeat magazine. She holds one semester unit of University of Wisconsin undergraduate credit in Duke Ellington. Ms. Willard has served as Historical Consultant to the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, Consultant in Jazz and Popular Music at the Library of Congress and has conducted jazz oral histories for these institutions as well as for the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Oral History Program. She currently is completing a book on Ellington's last quarter century and his continuing impact on music internationally.
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Patricia Willard will present "Duke and Paul" on Sunday, June 19, 2022, 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the Memorial Union Play Circle. This event is free and open to the public. Jazz historian Patricia Willard will share first-person account of Duke Ellington and his orchestra at UW-Madison 50 years ago, while a student as well as a journalist for Downbeat. Reflecting on Duke's week in residence, the hour will conclude with video of Duke and Paul Gonsalves performing "Happy Reunion" in Mills Hall on July 21, 1972.
Patricia Willard is a writer, historian, photojournalist, concert producer, archivist and research consultant who, for more than 25 years was associated with Duke Ellington as editor, researcher and West Coast public relations counsel. In July 1972, she independently registered as a student for the University of Wisconsin Duke Ellington Festival and covered the week-long event for Downbeat magazine. She holds one semester unit of University of Wisconsin undergraduate credit in Duke Ellington. Ms. Willard has served as Historical Consultant to the Duke Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, Consultant in Jazz and Popular Music at the Library of Congress and has conducted jazz oral histories for these institutions as well as for the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Oral History Program. She currently is completing a book on Ellington's last quarter century and his continuing impact on music internationally.
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And here are the details of the earlier UWIS panel from earlier this year...
Panel Talk: Duke Ellington’s 1972 UW–Madison Residency
Panel Talk: Duke Ellington’s 1972 UW–Madison Residency
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, April 15, 2022
10:00-11:30am
Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, UW–Madison, 740 University Ave
We are pleased to shine a light on this event presented by the Mead Witter School of Music! Lecturer of Ethnomusicology Luci Mok will host Emeritus Professor of Music James Latimer and Jane Coyne to reminisce on the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Duke Ellington UW–Madison residency.
Fifty years ago this summer, in July 1972, UW–Madison’s School of Music hosted Duke Ellington and his orchestra for its Duke Ellington Festival, also billed as “Duke Ellington Week,” which included five days of concerts, workshops and masterclasses in what would be the longest university residency of Ellington’s career.
The impetus for the 1972 festival came from a conversation with the School of Music’s Percussion Professor, Jim Latimer, while Duke was on campus in 1971 to receive an honorary doctorate. Professor Latimer went on to organize and chair the festival, which turned out to be the most extensive and intensive campus residency of Duke’s storied career.
Highlights from the festival included a complete performance of Duke’s Second Sacred Concert that included an 81-member community choir drawn from 21 local churches, a “Family Day” concert at Camp Randall Stadium that drew an audience of over 6,000, and the premiere performance of Duke’s The Uwis Suite, composed especially for the occasion.
Jane Coyne was a voice student at UW–Madison who participated in Ellington’s workshops during the residency and sang in the Ellington Festival Chorus. Following the residency, she was invited to tour and perform with Ellington’s Orchestra throughout his last year of performances.
We have been communicating with Luci Mok, Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Peter Dominguez, and John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies, Director of Jazz Studies & Professor of Music Johannes Wallmann throughout this academic year regarding plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Duke Ellington Festival. We have shared various materials, including a scan of the festival program (see cover image and excerpts above) and recordings from the festival we have in our Ken Ohst Collection, a collection on 181 reels of jazz music and interviews from Ken Ohst, long-time jazz announcer and producer at WHA Radio.
We also shared the Oral History Program interview with Jim Latimer, which was conducted by Roxanne Reed in 1994. Special thanks to Troy Reeves, Head of the Oral History Program at University Archives, for making the recording available. Tom Caw, Music Public Services Librarian, met with Luci Mok’s Music 497: Jazz in America class this semester to teach the students how to conduct research into the residency making use of resources we have here physically and access to online for an assignment. Johannes Wallmann has a performance of The Uwis Suite planned for the Madison Jazz Festival in June, along with other forms of acknowledging and celebrating the anniversary. We’ll share more information about that as we get it!
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