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Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer is bringing a familiar face back to Durham: former Blue Devil Tyler Thornton will join ...
When the legendary Jaime Laredo stepped down as music director, the VSO initiated a search that yielded seven finalists (two ...
This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world.
Born in 1948, the opener has become a state tradition, though not all leaders have been on board with the party-type atmosphere Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty holds up a northern pike he caught while ...
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 ...
From the gorgeous opener, “Be Kind,” to the uplifting ... Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé and Duke Ellington,” she says. But her musically adventurous and curious mind melds those classic ...
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 pianist, a bandleader, a composer and arranger…and, at one time, Duke Ellington was a record-label owner. At the ...
The Youth Jazz Ensemble of DuPage submitted recordings of Duke Ellington’s “What ... and replace it with Ellington’s “The Opener.” Drummer Ryan Weaver, 18, a senior at Oswego High ...