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 WELCOME TO TDES 40 IN TORONTO

LATEST NEWS :  

Our regularly scheduled General Meeting May 14 2024

We will be holding a video session this afternoon.  We will view a variety of jazz related videos. 

 Please look under the Meetings and Events tab for all upcoming meetings

Meetings will remain on the second Tuesday of the month but will start at 1:30 p.m. with the doors to the venue opening at 1:00 p.m. for set up etc. Meetings need to be complete by 4:00 p.m.

 

Note that we always appreciate visitors and non members coming to our meetings to check us out.  If you know someone that may be interested, please tell them how great the music and presentations are and encourage them to come. 

Please see under the Meetings and Events tab for the  Financial statement.

The Toronto Chapter of the Duke Ellington Society was created on May 4th. 1959  and was one of the earliest to be established. The first Chapter was founded in Washington D.C. in 1953 and with the New York Chapter they were the only two others in existence in 1959.  Subsequently, several others have been formed in U.S. cities, in Britain and in Europe. While each chapter is independent there is interchange of information and studies and an annual International Conference.  The Toronto Chapter  hosted International Conferences in 1987 and 1996.

The music of Duke Ellington continues to bring people of all ages, backgrounds, artistic, social and cultural inclinations together in the spirit of swinging celebration. That is why TDES 40 continues to build awareness of Ellington’s music and influence through study, discussion and analysis in a welcoming and hospitable forum. We undertake the wonderfully rewarding work of encouraging the performance of jazz and of Ellington’s music by local, national and international musicians through our organization of concerts and through the awarding of scholarships to today’s musicians of the future.

Concerts are presented at a December Holiday Party and on a date near April 29, Duke’s birthday, every year. These eagerly awaited events have added significantly to the Chapter’s scholarship fund raising capabilities.