Warm Vintage Jazz Via Verve Acoustic Sounds Series 180-gram Vinyl Reissues Feature Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges and Roland ...

The program will explore the music and personal and working relationship of Ellington and Strayhorn, featuring well-known classics and beautiful and evocative lesser known works.

Attendees at the organization’s gala, which celebrated Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, shared what they listen to.

Stars out in force to honor the musical pioneer and his legacy of compositions which are etched into the soul of America.

Duke Ellington’s enduring legacy as a musical pioneer was celebrated at a gala and concert with the soul of America as its ...

As the world celebrates the 126th birthday of our greatest composer, Duke Ellington, we should mark the lessons his music teaches us.

In 1950 bandleader Duke Ellington started his own record label that recorded numerous small-group dates often led by Ellington cohort Billy Strayhorn, featuring outstanding Ellington-orbit musicians ...

Ellington recorded “Black and Tan Fantasy” several times in 1927 with a small orchestra, showing off the ensemble’s tightly honed, potently expressive sound. Moran converted it into a solo, which he ...

Anthony Davis blends jazz and truth to reshape opera with stories from Black history and powerful modern themes.

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...

The history-laden style movement will be front and center at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose spring exhibit ...