His work continues to invoke the mood and character of the jazz clubs of his era – “The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician,” said Ellington. Here are seven facts about the ...

This photograph records an iconic moment among three jazz legends, in which Ella Fitzgerald performs while Duke Ellington (left) and Benny Goodman (center) listen and watch with admiration and joy, ...

Edward Kennedy (“Duke”) Ellington and Benjamin David (“Benny”‘) Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money ...

Joya Sherrill, who sang with Duke Ellington as a teenager, toured the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman and was one of the first African-American performers to host a children’s television show ...

Called “Benny Meets Duke,” the concert will feature Ellington material as it was arranged for and performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the Swing Era of the 1930s and ’40s. It’s ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Harvey, the jazz vocalist who performed with the likes of Desi Arnaz, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, has died. She was 88. A spokesman for Harvey says the singer died ...

Every successful big band leader featured brilliant soloists: Count Basie had Lester Young, Fletcher Henderson had Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman had Gene Krupa. But the Maestro, Duke Ellington ...

Discover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided when America asked Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to travel as cultural ambassadors and combat ...

The sound of Benny Goodman - the blazing clarinet soaring ... Goodman's historic 1938 jazz concert at Carnegie Hall (where Duke Ellington, who'd been swinging his way all along, premiered his ...

but also members of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands. Rachel Edelson, Benny Goodman's daughter and Sacramento-based college professor, remembers her father and his legacy 80 years after ...

Benny Goodman, like Duke Ellington, lived nine musical lives. Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, ...

The original cover for the 1960 big band album, “The Nutcracker Suite,” presented three people as the authors, all with equal font size and inhabiting the same line: “Ellington. Strayhorn.