From back door gigs to Duke Ellington's Orchestra, Boston's Harry Carney made the saxophone sing 09:06 April 29, 2022 Bob Oakes Wilder Fleming ...

Composer Duke Ellington performs a “concert of sacred music” with his orchestra as Lena Horne sings at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on Dec. 26, 1965, in New York, N.Y.

Storyville Records, based in Copenhagen, have now completed the Herculean task of re-releasing all the Duke Ellington Treasury Show albums on CD. These are recordings of broadcasts made for the US ...

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra plays Duke Ellington's most iconic tunes. In celebration of the great pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, Boston's Aardvark Jazz Orchestra plays some of his most iconic ...

As the Brockton Symphony Orchestra turns 100, it has a dynamic young conductor whose enthusiasm and love of music is ...

Apr. 2—HENDERSON — Almost 100 years ago, Edward Kennedy Ellington gave the downbeat on a jazz number and his orchestra opened a seven-year run at the Cotton Club in Harlem. That downbeat also ...

Jazz at the Kennedy Center’s commemoration launches on March 15, 2024 with Ellington’s very own Grammy Award®–winning supergroup, The Duke Ellington Orchestra.

When Phyllis Hall, of Catahoula, asked Curious Louisiana if it's true that Duke Ellington and his orchestra once played in a swanky nightclub in Bunkie called the Blue Moon, I ...

If you go BSO SuperPops Presents: The Duke Ellington Orchestra Where: The Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda When: 8 p.m. Nov. 5 Info: $28 to $90; 410-783-8000 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A newly formed group of the area's best musicians is paying tribute to jazz legend Duke Ellington in honor of his 125th birthday. “Someone once said, if humans experienced it ...

Subject of Duke Ellington, American, 1899 - 1974 Juan Tizol Martinez, Puerto Rican, 1900 - 1984 Barney Bigard, American, 1906 - 1980 Sonny Greer, American, 1895 - 1982 Description A black and white ...