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 ...

Richard Linklater's movie about the making of 'Breathless' is not just for cinephiles, but for anyone with an inkling of an ...

Down the street is the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago ... diverse as bluesman Muddy Waters and the great jazz artist Duke Ellington. Yet over time, the membership dwindled, and the ...

But a previous trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for its “Harlem On My Mind” exhibit ... suits for nearly every famous ...

But a previous trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for its “Harlem On My Mind ... famous Black male celebrity of the time, from Duke Ellington to Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali ...

Ella Fitzgerald called him The Duke of Ellington; he was a true Renaissance man and one of the giants of 20th Century music – jazz or any other kind. Music publishers are not generally noted for ...

If so, he should perhaps have been content to anthologise the quotes. And is the book meant to cover the ... his description of the bags under Duke Ellington's eyes as "sets of matched luggage" sounds ...

All of them are unique in their own way, and many have contributed greatly to the development of an art form that continues ... before landing a job with Duke Ellington a year later.

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 ...