It’s called "Memphis to Manhattan and Back," a jazz celebration packed with guest performances and acknowledgements. It's ...

I’ve never seen anybody move like that.”That’s what Aisha Ahmad-Post, executive director of the Robert and Judi Newman Center ...

It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s ... said Julius Tolentino, the jazz director at Newark Academy in Livingston, N.J., whose band won the competition in 2024.

Composing and arranging one of the most diverse bodies of work of any composer ... Band Competition in 2012. Photo Courtesy of Frank Stewart for Jazz at Lincoln Center As a young man, Duke ...

In 1950, Duke Ellington recorded Masterpieces by Ellington, an ambitious album that redefined jazz composition ... its audience as he talks about building rival media empire 4 Tragically Outdated ...

If anything, the Duke, at 67, is writing more jazz and writing it better ... ministering to musicians and barflies. Ellington says that his greatest competition today is the Duke Ellington of ...

THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — The halls of Lehman College are alive with the smooth sounds of Duke Ellington ... the prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Competition in May.

But suddenly, as the last light of day fades, the M-shaped, Art Deco lights on the front of a new, two-story building on the ... bebop eras of the ’40s. Duke Ellington and his orchestra were ...

This year’s festival also offered Indiana’s first-ever Essentially Ellington Regional, focusing on education and opportunities to perform the music of Duke Ellington ... from clinicians and jazz ...

The first edition took place in 2005 and was dubbed the Duke Ellington ... in jazz, but embracing more contemporary sounds. That does not diminish Fishman’s contribution to building the ...

It is the birthplace of jazz band leader Duke Ellington, soul singer Marvin Gaye ... A century old law dictates no building can be more than 130ft tall. The urban myth is it was introduced so ...

Newark Academy’s jazz band, Chameleon, was named the No. 1 high school jazz band in the country at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival ... Chameleon performed Duke ...