The jazz vibe continues at 2 p.m. with the U.S. Army's 19-piece ensemble, The Jazz Ambassadors, who draw on big band charts from the Swing Era with an emphasis on Duke Ellington, Count Basie and ...

The music of Duke Ellington has the power of multi-generational relevance. The lessons he taught the world nearly a century ago can still help us today.

The Youth Jazz Ensemble of DuPage will participate in the 2025 Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival for high school bands, May 7-11, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of the great pianist, composer and bandleader’s birth.

Thomas Wilkins conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra and guest pianist Gerald Clayton in Duke Ellington's "New World A-Coming" at Symphony Hall on Nov. 7, 2024. ©Michael J.Lutch ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis ‘Hot Jazz and Swing’ Rose Hall, Through September 21 Streaming Through September 27 Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday night launched its 20th ...

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 ...

A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.

But on Friday’s spring season opener, the Pops filled Symphony Hall with the music of George Gershwin before turning things over to Harry Connick Jr. Asking for anything more would seem churlish.

Duke Ellington was perhaps the most pious of the three maestros. Growing up, he attended two services each Sunday: African Methodist Episcopal Zion with his father, Baptist with his mother.

This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. Why is it that out of the hundreds of musicians who electrified the nightclubs ...