June 6 marks the deadline for parents to enroll their children in DPSCD’s 2025 Summer Learning Experience—a program that has ...

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 ...

By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher and Tim Schutsky Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

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 ...

The Santa Monica College (SMC) Music Department presents the SMC Jazz Ensemble, SMC Chamber Choir, SMC Concert Chorale, and SMC Jazz Vocal Ensemble in “Duke Ellington: From the Sacred to the ...

An excerpt from Larry Tye’s The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. “Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?” asked a 1921 Ladies Home Journal ...

This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. Why is it that out of the hundreds of musicians who electrified the nightclub ...