This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader, composer and pianist died 50 years ago. In the new book “The Jazzmen,” biographer Larry Tye sets out to ...

Few artists have had the same cultural impact as jazz master Miles Davis, but if anyone could rival his revolutionary power, ...

For the past nine years, award-winning trombonist and recording artist Reginald Cyntje has inspired audiences around the ...

Duke Ellington, one of the greatest figures of jazz, died 50 years ago today. The highest form of praise he would apply to others was to call them ‘beyond category’, and Ellington’s own New York Times ...

The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, in association with The American Tap Dance Foundation, will present Such Sweet ...

People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration with CSUN’s Jazz A Band, celebrating Duke Ellington, composer and ...

A new book by Larry Tye — The Jazzmen — traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement. Sponsor Message MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE ...

1975 saw the last official album released by one of the world’s greatest ever jazz musicians, Duke Ellington, a live recording of one of his final performances, a performance two years earlier at the ...