This sultry, blues-inflected piece is a masterclass in Ellington ... By incorporating elements of the blues and European classical music, Ellington also challenged the notion of Black music ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

Moran grew up listening to all manner of music, from jazz to reggae to hip-hop. As a teenager he learned to play the Afrika ...

Thus the music career of Duke Ellington wasborn. Duke was taken under the wings of ... Earlier in the year, his strange obsession with royalty had produced a piece for Princess Margaret, “Princess ...

On the occasion of Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, the great composer passes the torch to his modern counterpart, Jason Moran.

“Ellington was showing up everywhere. We have him to cherish, because he kept laying something into the music that would always be timeless.” The other special piece is from the Ellington ...

brushing aside his own statement that almost all the music his seventeen-piece band plays has been scored. Partly because of this bickering, Ellington always feels that he has found sanctuary when ...

The Femme Ellington Project from Seattle JazzED helped KNKX celebrate Women's History Month with a swinging School of Jazz ...

What happened next was to go down in jazz history... and reignite Ellington’s career. In Facing The Music, we experience the human drama behind some of the most extraordinary classical music ...