To know Duke Ellington is to know his band — although few can name its other members today. The defining sound of his charter band came from drummer Sonny Greer. Before drum sets were ...

Duke Ellington's orchestra was one of the most important and iconic big bands in jazz’s history. Everything about it was ...

Duke Ellington’s version of racial subversion ... including from his son Mercer and other band members. Duke needed to be doing more, they said, and so this most private of men dipped his ...

Now the jazz players will head to New York City this spring to compete with the best of the best from across the country in the competition celebrating Duke Ellington's music. It will be Band ...

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn barreling away ... hauntingly beautiful ballad “Lotus Blossom,” while Ellington band members can be heard at first chatting and packing up in the background ...

It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra ... an annual training program for band directors and sends out professional musicians, often members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center ...