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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra plays Duke Ellington's most iconic tunes.
Twenty-one years ago the Duke Ellington Orchestra sold out two back-to-back shows in Atwood Concert Hall. This weekend they return with a bunch of the same evergreen tunes and some of the same ...
Before the Duke Ellington Orchestra heads to China and Japan, it will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center, 2021 State St., Bettendorf.
The Rev. Alonzo Webster Wright Lyceum Committee at Claflin University will present an evening of jazz featuring the legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.
In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...
Image of nine musicians playing a cornet, a piano, four saxophones, and three trombones. The print represents musicians in the Duke Ellington Orchestra: Rex Stewart (cornet), Duke Ellington (piano), ...
He also played with the iconoclastic Boyd Raeburn Band of the mid-1940s before becoming a stalwart of the Duke Ellington Orchestra trombone sections in the 1950s.