Trumpeter and band leader Chris Coull leads his octet of jazz soloists in his Tribute to the Duke at Steyning Jazz Club on ...

Duke Ellington's orchestra was one of the most important and iconic big bands in jazz’s history. Everything about it was ...

It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the house band at the Cotton Club on 142nd Street. Even there, where Ellington and his group of Black musicians played in ...

Central High's Jazz Band won the 2025 "Essentially Ellington" High School Competition and Festival, which took place between May 7-11, 2025. This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named ...

After Duke Ellington’s beloved longtime writing partner Billy Strayhorn passed away from cancer at the age of 51 in 1967, a bereaved Ellington took his band into the studio to make an album that ...

jason moran “duke ellington: my heart sings” At Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, March 1, 8 p.m. $39 to $109. celebrityseries.org ...

People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration with CSUN’s Jazz A Band, celebrating Duke Ellington, composer and ...

Musical genius Duke Ellington crafted nearly 2,000 compositions across five remarkable decades, ... with pieces like “East St. Louis Toodle-o” and “Black and Tan Fantasy” tailored to highlight his ...

WOODSTOCK — The last living member of the legendary rock group The Band has died. Eric “Garth” Hudson, a multi-instrumentalist whose electronic organ playing helped define The Band’s ...

Thanksgiving may be upon us, but Duke Ellington lovers in metro Detroit have an extra reason to party this weekend. Popular, nine-piece Detroit big band Planet D Nonet will play two shows at Ann ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

The Ellington program zeroed in on orchestral music from the later half of his life, the oldest piece being the 1943 piano-orchestra rhapsody “New World A-Coming” and the latest “Three Black ...