Archives for January 18, 2011

If you should happen to be in or near the Winter Park-Orlando area of Florida, I’ll be speaking about Duke Ellington at Rollins College tonight at seven p.m. under the auspices of the Winter Park Institute. Here’s part of the press release:

Teachout started writing his sixth book, Black Beauty: A Life of Duke Ellington, in the spring of 2010. The finished manuscript is due in 2013. What happens between now and then? In this exclusive progress report on the writing of Black Beauty, Teachout takes you inside his workshop and tells the inside story of how he is sculpting the public and private lives of a great artist into a large-scale narrative biography….

For more details, go here.

Duke Ellington and his orchestra perform “Satin Doll” in 1962:

“If I have gone higher than others in advertising, or done more, the fact is not due to exceptional ability, but to exceptional hours. It means that a man has sacrificed all else in life to excel in this one profession. It means a man to be pitied, rather than envied, perhaps.”
Claude C. Hopkins, My Life in Advertising