Laurent Mignard seems to be doing a good job keeping his repertoire band Duke Orchestra together, and of course Wynton Marsalis's Lincoln Center Orchestra is a treasure, as is his Essentially ...

“They wanted the enslaved person to stand out almost as if they were a luxury item,” said Jonathan Square, Parsons School of Design ... Zora Neale Hurston to Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong ...

His father was a Chicago cop and his mother was a homemaker. He attended Du Sable High School and played in ... the big band sounds of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.

RALEIGH — Jon Scheyer hasn’t forgotten his playing days, particularly from his time around Chicago as one of the best hoopers to hit the court in Illinois. Chicago native Patrick Beverley ...

His father, Dr. Frank Gordon, was one of the first African American doctors in Los Angeles who arrived in 1918 after graduating from Howard Medical School in Washington, D.C. Among his patients were ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was killed and ... The shooting happened around the corner from Duke Ellington Elementary School. And investigation by Area Four Detectives is ongoing.

The program includes over 170 sites across more than 20 neighborhoods, featuring schools ... Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1992.

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 ...

As has often been the case throughout its half-a-century existence, the most recent graduation ceremony at Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DESA ... prepares to go to Columbia College Chicago, she’s ...

And when Duke Ellington joined, they got worldwide headlines. But don't trust me. Martin Luther King, in a little-noticed speech in Berlin, said, if it weren't for these jazz guys, that essentially ...