The American Tap Dance Foundation and the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts will present an exciting lineup of tap dance and jazz events across New York City from June 10, 2025, to May 24, 2026 ...

Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music album review by Chuck Lenatti, published on June 1, 2025. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Essentially Ellington once again brought the world’s best high school jazz musicians to New York. Over the last 30 years, the event has reshaped how jazz is taught.

As the world celebrates the 126th birthday of our greatest composer, Duke Ellington, we should mark the lessons his music teaches us.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 album review by Chuck Lenatti, published on November 20, 2024. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

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 ...

Duke Ellington Read His Bible in the Bath Larry Tye An excerpt from Larry Tye’s The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America.

A celebration of the 125th birthday of jazz great Duke Ellington will take place Monday, May 6 at Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in NYC.

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.