Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Hinton Battle won. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Gregory Hines was nominated but did not win. Best ...

She joined the ranks of Chick Webb’s orchestra as its velvet ... so did her range. “Satin Doll,” her 1953 version of Ellington’s jazz standard, is a textbook example of doing the most ...

Elegant, stomping, then tender, this piece is now being recognized as one of the greatest works for jazz orchestra. Composer Duke Ellington poses for a portrait at the piano in circa 1930.

Duke Ellington's orchestral suite “Black, Brown and Beige,” performed by the CSO under Damon Gupton on May 9, offered a ...

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 ...

By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher and Tim Schutsky Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington ... times in 1927 with a small orchestra, showing off the ...

DUKE (11D: Jazz legend Ellington) DUKE Ellington (1899-1974) was a jazz pianist, composer, and orchestra leader. From 1923 until his death, he was the leader of The DUKE Ellington Orchestra.

Several soloists cleverly injected Christmas-song snippets into the band's expected ... The Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra – the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington ...