People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration with CSUN’s Jazz A Band, celebrating Duke Ellington, composer and ...

The current tour features Marsalis and the JLCO exploring Ellington’s connections with African music, including material from the Ellington works “Afro-Bossa” (1963), “Liberian Suite” (1947) and “Togo ...

It should not be so hard to identify the most important jazz musician in the history of the genre. It is one of five artists: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Miles ...

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 ...

Wynton Marsalis, the Grammy award-winning jazz master, is celebrating the legacy of Duke Ellington. He and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are performing works from Ellington’s catalogue. Wynton ...

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Houston native Jason Moran has spent the past several months playing the works of Duke Ellington, marking last year’s 125th anniversary of the composer's birth. Last Thanksgiving I saw him play a ...

Duke Ellington, one of the greatest figures of jazz, died 50 years ago today. The highest form of praise he would apply to others was to call them ‘beyond category’, and Ellington’s own New York Times ...

Duke Ellington died nearly 40 years ago, but for jazz fans of a certain age his musical creativity and elegant style remain timeless. Whether he was leading his orchestra in “Take the A Train,” the ...

There are rare insights into Duke Ellington in this book from Jack Chambers, his second on Duke Ellington. Chambers has also written important books on Miles Davis and Richard Twardzik. He is ...

The celebration will be co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington—granddaughter of Duke Ellington and Founder and Artistic Director of The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts—and Tony Waag, Founding Director of ...