Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, portraying the jaunts as being as amorous as ...

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 ...

Ellington died in 1974, and a few years later his family decided to officially release "Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940, Live." In 1980, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental ...

Step inside this Bed-Stuy brownstone and you’ll swear you’ve been whisked back to a jazz venue in 1940s Brooklyn. Housed in a ...

On April 29, the world will celebrate D.C. native Duke Ellington’s musical wizardry on the 125th anniversary of his birth. A stylish giant of American music, Ellington wrote and performed jazz ...

Throughout the 2023–2024 season, the 13th presented under Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center commemorates Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday with institution-wide ...

For any writer on Duke Ellington there is the problem of how to cut through the prodigious amount of work that Ellington produced. In this book, and in his previous book, Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington ...

But 125 years after Ellington’s birth, the Duke’s music has lost not one particle of its precious exuberance. Eric Herman is a former reporter turned communications consultant at Avoq and ...

Lenny Kravitz Recalls Sitting on Duke Ellington's Lap and Being Serenaded by the Jazz Legend When He Was 5 (Exclusive) "I knew that I liked him and he was a sweet man," Kravitz tells PEOPLE of the ...

An excellent 17-member onstage orchestra, under the music supervision of Larry Blank and John Clayton and conducted by pianist Harold O’Neal, does justice to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn ...

Moran talks about his performance, "Duke Ellington: My Heart Sings” and about his dream to create a venue in Houston where jazz musicians can find an open mic to jam.

Duke was performing at Johns Hopkins, and his hosts told him about the Blue Jay, a nearby eatery whose owner turned away Black students but said he’d serve a “proper nigger” like Ellington.