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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jason Moran has spent the past year immersing himself in the music of Duke Ellington ... nights of Ellington performances at SFJAZZ in San Francisco with the Marcus Shelby Big Band and vocalist ...

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 ... the ...

WOODSTOCK — The last living member of the legendary rock group The Band has died ... where he played Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady.” It was his first public performance in five ...

“File:The Band 2005710093.jpg” by Heinrich Klaffs ... N.Y., where he offered a rendition of Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady.” Garth Hudson is preceded in death by his wife, Maud ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz ... at nearby Rye High School auditorium the night before the Carnegie appearance, the band members performed the score uninterrupted ...

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 ...

Duke Ellington really started to get around ... Most of the original band members had either quit or died, and with their replacements, Composer Ellington seemed to have trouble writing new ...

Wilson was a dancer who, as a young woman, toured with Duke Ellington and ... some with her and other band members. The room also had a jukebox loaded with Ellington's music.