Dancers inside McCollum Hall in an undated historic photo. The Dunbar building housed an upstairs dance hall that drew ...

June 6 is the deadline for parents in the Detroit Public Schools Community District to get their children signed up for ...

Ellington is quoted in the book “Duke Ellington’s America” as ... Memphis Central is a public high school, and like most public school band directors, Dr. Liddell is responsible for not ...

He then shared a lesser-known part of his biography: Before he was in the stand-up comedy scene, he attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., a public high school with a ...

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 ...

Across the arc of his spectacular 20 th-century career Duke Ellington was a ... history That Devilin’ Tune as Ellington’s appreciative nod to the bebop school, praising the pianist’s adaptat ...

This year's performance will be held at Duke Ellington School of the Arts on March 15 ... The 6 p.m. performance is free and open to the public.

Jason Moran has spent the past year immersing himself in the music of Duke Ellington: listening, practicing, teaching — and, most importantly, performing it. His efforts got their public launch ...

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, ...

Duke was attending public school and, at his mother’s instigation, taking lessons on the piano from a woman he insists was named Miss Klinkscale. He was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, but ...

This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader ... the elite all-Black high school in Washington. His 1929 radio broadcasts from Harlem’s Cotton Club ...