The Duke appeared a little bored. He was being asked a lot of routine questions about his favorite sports, hangouts, and orchestras. He made a gesture of impatience. "I don't get 'round to hearing ...

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...

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You’ve heard Duke Ellington, but never like this. Richard DeRosa, Grammy nominee and professor of jazz arranging at the University of North Texas, co-produced an album of modernized works by Ellington ...

FARGO — Local musicians will play a tribute to the Grammy-winning recording, “Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live.” The ...

The grand scale of events on Beef & Boards’ stage throws a glow over us in the seats. I look around and see bodies moving as the on-stage big band, under Teneh K.C. Karimu’s direction, calls us into ...

Jazz pianist Ellington Carthan’s skill has spanned years performing and producing his own work. He’s taken stages across the D.C. area, including at Blues Alley, the Library of Congress, and the ...

Mercedes Ellington is keeping her grandfather’s iconic sound alive. The uptown eatery named for iconic composer and bandleader Duke Ellington will finally be the home to his music on Sunday. Ellington ...

The Duke Ellington Legacy Band sounds "as classic as the day Duke Ellington gave his music birth, while still sounding like a contemporary jazz band...." says Susan Frances of Jazzreview.com. The Duke ...

[Music] American Negro very trustingly have come along a hundred years now after the Emancipation Proclamation and of course now their their demands are coming more strong and as it should be their ...

The Boston-born musician Randall Keith Horton says Duke Ellington changed the course of his life. Perhaps one of the most defining titles Horton ever had was as Ellington's conductor and composing ...