Jazz great Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, a twelve-part jazz suite based on the work of William Shakespeare, will be explored in the next edition of the Duke Ellington Performance Series on ...

The celebration will be co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington—granddaughter of Duke Ellington and Founder and Artistic Director of The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts—and Tony Waag, Founding Director of ...

The Duke Ellington-produced album A Morning in Paris-- recorded in 1963 by South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin featuring Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Abdullah Ibrahim as pianists -- ...

Shakespeare’s tried and true romances, uproarious comedies, and dire tragedies funnel into a fluid jazz standard in Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder,” the inspiration for Columbia’s year-long ...

Join the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Quintet for a performance of Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Tail.” This Duke Ellington composition “Cotton Tail” was originally recorded on May 4, 1940, for his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Duke Ellington performs a "concert of sacred music" with his orchestra as Lena Horne sings at the Fifth Avenue ...

Baltimore Police are continuing to investigate three violent incidents over the last few days.This includes a stabbing, a robbery, and a shooting, all within le Two juveniles charged after ...

Call him the Duke of Denmark as this is the second superb Ellington performance recorded in that country to be released in 2003 alone Its also an appropriate followup to The Intimate Duke Ellington ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...