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For budding jazz musicians around the world, this program is the north star. Now a group of Australian classmates are joining ...

The town’s community jazz orchestra, Blue Big Band, will perform Duke Ellington’s Afro-Bossa Suite at the Swampscott High School Auditorium on Thursday evening at 7:15 p.m. Timo Shanko, a Swampscott ...

Janelle Monae, Grace Jones, Dinosaur Jr., Snail Mail, Gogol Bordello and tributes to Quincy Jones are highlights of Celebrate ...

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

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 ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. —The No. 7 Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team heads to Durham, N.C. for its final road trip of the regular-season on Saturday afternoon to take on the 12th-ranked Duke Blue ...