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

“Duke Ellington’s music ... Center’s Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program and is the illustrious winner of the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, the 2015 Thelonious ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ... makes an entire building shudder, and ...

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 ...

Duke Ellington and the sixteen other men in his jazz band are rather surprised at the research that has been expended on bringing to light the drunks, hangovers, and frolics of their youth.