Duke Ellington at 125 Jazz at Lincoln Center: Rose Theater & Dizzy’s Club Various events, Through May 11. ... Audience members were feeling like we were traveling through a dark, thick forest of trees ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center has played a major role in spreading the gospel of Ellington. This year, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of our signature education program Essentially Ellington, a high ...

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 ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

Ellington’s music stayed open to jazz’s younger generations. “In a Sentimental Mood,” from an album he recorded in 1962 with John Coltrane and members of his quartet, leans into the ...

Wynton Marsalis, the Grammy award-winning jazz master, is celebrating the legacy of Duke Ellington. He and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are performing works from Ellington’s catalogue ...

This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader, composer and pianist died 50 years ago. In the new book “The Jazzmen,” biographer Larry Tye sets out to ...

For a score of years, while "kings" of jazz and swing have succeeded each other with Balkan rapidity, a "Duke" has exhibited most of the real majesty from beside the throne. So ...

The eatery is just steps away from Duke Ellington Blvd, a section of 106th St. that runs from Riverside Drive (where he owned two townhouses) to Central Park that was renamed for the jazz great in ...

Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, ...

Composer Duke Ellington poses for a portrait at the piano in circa 1930. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. In 1971's Chinoiserie, the 10-bar modal melody harmonized in intervals of fourths is ...