(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history ... His compositions, spanning from the swing era to the avant-garde, remain deeply embedded in the fabric of American music.

A day of Ellington inspired me to share five recently posted YouTube clips of the ... The rise of swing and jazz's sophisticated elegance starts with Duke Ellington. His first recordings were with ...

"Swing is an emotional element that happens ... conceited about his success--he maintains that good publicity is the Duke Ellington likes Boston, as do other visiting orchestra leaders.

Duke Ellington, whose contours have something of ... which was playing when Benny Goodman was in short trousers and when the word “swing” was unknown, have aroused such admiration individually ...

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

Soweto is joined in the studio by Nick Jurd (double bass) and Jonathan Silk (drums) to perform their version of the Duke Ellington track ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it Ain’t Got That Swing)’.