One day earlier this year, Danielle Erdmann, in Boston, got a call from her father, Tom Erdmann, in Fargo, telling her to be sure to read the Neighbors column online. That column concerned the ...

FARGO — Duke Ellington’s 1940 show at Fargo’s Crystal Ballroom has become a legend in jazz circles, but despite a recording of the show winning a Grammy Award and being housed in the Smithsonian ...

Don't think of Duke Ellington as a bandleader. Instead, consider him in the same light as other great entrepreneurs like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) ...

An historic double album, the only one to feature the Duke Ellington band in the greatest of its many incarnations, playing a dance date. It captures the immediacy and chaotic magic of the 1940 ...

Smithsonian Collection: R 013; additional no.: DPM 20351. Jazz. Biographical notes, program notes by Larry Gushee, bibliography, and original record numbers ([6] p ...

In 1940, Duke Ellington was working with what many critics call his best band ever. He was touring the country far and wide; one of his tour stops fell in the northern U.S. outpost of Fargo, N.D. in ...

Savor the sounds of big band jazz and swing with this compendium of live performance clips from some of the genres most legendary musicians Besides innovative clarinetist composer and bandleader Artie ...