Frank Sinatra had his biggest hit single of the 1960s with “Somethin’ Stupid,” a light pop duet with his daughter Nancy Sinatra that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967. But he also ...

Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...

In the early 1960s, Duke Ellington hooked up with the John Coltrane Quartet to record Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, an album spotlighting... Duke Ellington: 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane' [MUSIC ...

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 ...

As one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the 20th Century, Edward "Duke" Ellington led a band from the early 1920s until his death in 1974. He composed new material relentlessly, ...

(New York-AP) -- An Oklahoma native who once played bass with Duke Ellington and other musical greats has died. Aaron Bell died Monday in New York at age 82. Bell was Ellington's bassist from 1960 to ...