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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

presented to Duke Ellington National Museum of African American History and Culture Duke Ellington and his Band at the Saint-Lazare Station National Museum of American History Irving Mills Trophy, ...

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

The Blooming of "Lotus Blossom" After Duke Ellington’s beloved longtime writing partner Billy Strayhorn passed away from cancer at the age of 51 in 1967, a bereaved Ellington took his band ...

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.