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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald called him The Duke of Ellington ... Then in 1956, there was something of a revival in the Orchestra’s fortunes, beginning with an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival ...

Her renditions of these jazz classics, from the work of Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin to Duke Ellington ... of her improvisational interludes. 1956’s Lullabies of Birdland offers ...

By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher and Tim Schutsky Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of ...

Born in Washington, D.C., Eve was in her early 20s when she got her big break, discovered by famed jazz composer Duke Ellington who wanted her to sing in his orchestra. “I could barely stand up ...

In 1950, Duke Ellington recorded Masterpieces by Ellington, an ambitious album that redefined jazz composition. This deep dive explores the breathtaking Mood Indigo, a song that expanded beyond ...

Duke is widely believed to have been terribly miscast, even at the time, with The New Times calling the 1956 epic “an Oriental Western” with a script featuring “few unintentional laughs.” ...

Virginia Beach-based Armada Hoffler announced that Jennifer Boykin, former president of Newport News Shipbuilding, was appointed to the company’s board. Under her leadership, the shipyard ...

Hi, I am Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as Duke Ellington, born on April 29, 1899, was a composer, pianist, and bandleader whose contributions shaped the ...

The program will explore the music and personal and working relationship of Duke and “Strays”, featuring well known classics (Take The A Train, the Ellington Orchestra’s theme song ...