This month's edition, NOTHIN’ BUT DUKE ELLINGTON, paid tribute to jazz’s greatest icon, who celebrated his 125th birthday this year. Check out photos from inside the big event.

This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. ... Can’t Eat,” and photos showing the rakish maestro being ushered out of the Blue Jay by a Baltimore patrolman.

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 to ...

For over 50 years, Duke Ellington toured the world as a jazz composer, bandleader and pianist. ... In 1934, Paramount Pictures released Mae West‘s fourth film, “Belle of the Nineties.” ...

As the world celebrates the 126th birthday of our greatest composer, Duke Ellington, we should mark the lessons his music teaches us. ... Photo Courtesy of Frank Stewart for Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of the great pianist, composer and bandleader’s birth.

While it is Ellington’s name on the album cover, the reason we treat his name as synonymous with jazz is because of the music his band created, writes Sammy Miller.