As the world celebrates the 126th birthday of our greatest composer, Duke Ellington, we should mark the lessons his music teaches us.

Attendees at the organization’s gala, which celebrated Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, shared what they listen to.

By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher and Tim Schutsky Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington ... James Reese Europe. His take on “Black and Tan Fantasy ...

When invited to play some songs on radio, Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo selected one cut as representing New York's unique ...

After appearances in Harlem nightclubs, Duke Ellington's orchestra became one of the most famous jazz bands, and remained so for more than 50 years. Some of Ellington's best-known songs include "Take ...

when she sang Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train” in a kindergarten music class. She grew up in a family of New York creatives — her father is screenwriter Marc Lawrence, best known for ...

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 ... band’s most famous records, “Take The A Train,” which they recorded in Hollywood in January 1941. The song, written by Billy Strayhorn ...

A veritable giant in the history of jazz and the early years of popular music, Duke Ellington is ... composer of the all-time Ellington favorite “Take The A Train”). As well as being able ...

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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 ...