The early 1950s were a worrying time for Duke Ellington. Musical tastes were changing and big bands were going out of business. Ellington was nervous. "I like to keep a band so I can write and hear ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the life and legacy of jazz. Many legendary jazz artists were born in April, ...

It’s no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That’s done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined ...

Apr. 2—HENDERSON — Almost 100 years ago, Edward Kennedy Ellington gave the downbeat on a jazz number and his orchestra opened a seven-year run at the Cotton Club in Harlem. That downbeat also marked ...

Audience members who attend a Duke Ellington Orchestra performance sometimes get something extra with their price of admission. “When the audience comes to hear The Duke Ellington Orchestra they ...

The post Nandi Bushell Takes on Whiplash-Inspired Cover of Duke Ellington’s “Caravan”: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Nandi Bushell has taken on Duke Ellington’s jazz standard “Caravan,” which ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. WILKES-BARRE — The Duke Ellington Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 12 at the F.M.

Twenty-one years ago the Duke Ellington Orchestra sold out two back-to-back shows in Atwood Concert Hall. This weekend they return with a bunch of the same evergreen tunes and some of the same players ...

Quinten "Rocky" White, a jazz drummer who in his early 20s joined the famed Duke Ellington Orchestra and took part in some of its recordings, has died. He was 56. "He was a remarkable talent on a very ...

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