World-renowned jazz drummer, composer and educator Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls and grew up in the Quad Cities area.

Celebrate International Jazz Day on May 30 at any of the six Manistee County Library branches. Many books, movies and music ...

Dancers inside McCollum Hall in an undated historic photo. The Dunbar building housed an upstairs dance hall that drew ...

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 ...

taking the lead on Saturday. It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the house band at the Cotton Club on 142nd Street. Even there, where Ellington and his group of ...

Stars out in force to honor the musical pioneer and his legacy of compositions which are etched into the soul of America.

In an age where the term "relevance" feels like the single dominant tenant of nearly all of us in the education community, the significance of the work of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington continues ...

Across the arc of his spectacular 20 th-century career Duke Ellington was a pianist, a bandleader, a composer and arranger…and, at one time, Duke Ellington was a record-label owner. At the ...

Jason Moran has spent the past year immersing himself in the music of Duke Ellington: listening, practicing, teaching — and, most importantly, performing it. His efforts got their public launch ...

In another reality, Thursday evening’s Boston Symphony Orchestra concert might have felt like a celebration of something more than the legacy of composer Duke Ellington. Yes, it would have been ...

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 ...