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 ...

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 ...

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.

A celebration of the 125th birthday of jazz great Duke Ellington will take place Monday, May 6 at Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in NYC.

A High School Festival Keeps Duke Ellington Very Much Alive Essentially Ellington once again brought the world’s best high school jazz musicians to New York. Over the last 30 years, the event ...

Album Review Duke Ellington: Live in Zurich, Switzerland 2.5.1950 by David Rickert April 20, 2008 The end of the Swing Era and the advent of small group jazz signaled the death for many of the big ...

Ellington and Strayhorn’s Nutcracker collaboration was well-received upon its release, but soon enough receded into the depths of the Duke’s prodigious catalog.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, even their fame couldn’t fully protect them from the terrifying violence of Jim Crow. But the railroad, particularly the elegant Pullman ...