This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named after jazz pioneer Duke Ellington. Band members got to attend five days of workshops with some of the biggest names in jazz and then perform ...

Decades of Essentially Ellington have taught us that this music offers valuable lessons that are "deeper than notes." First, it's about the group. Duke understood that the individuals in his band ...

The town’s community jazz orchestra, Blue Big Band, will perform Duke Ellington’s Afro-Bossa Suite at the Swampscott High ...

More explicitly, he is a composer of jazz music and the leader of a jazz band. For over twenty-three years, Duke, christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, has spent his days and nights on trains ...

Jazz great Duke Ellington and his band shaped the 20th century American music scene, and his influence lives on in jazz and ...

"I don't have time. I 'live' my music!" That is the keynote of Duke Ellington's attitude towards his work. He is deeply absorbed in it, much more involved in his life-work, music, than other ...

This 1952 recording includes 2 performances of Duke and his Orchestra one on Jan 7 1952 and one on Aug 12 1952 12 of his signature pieces are featured including Sophisticated Lady Caravan The ...

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

The program will explore the music and personal and working relationship of Ellington and Strayhorn, featuring well-known classics and beautiful and evocative lesser known works.