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Blue Note Jazz Festival made its Hollywood Bowl debut, putting a modern spin on a historic jazz tradition over Father’s Day ...
Herb Sell, 93, of Littlestown, was friends with Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He still plays local gigs and wins over crowds twice a week.
The Doris Duke Theater, which burned down in 2020, has been rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology.
There’s a kind of time travel that happens when Peter and Will Anderson take the stage. You hear it in the glide of the clarinet, the crisp snap of the snare, ...
New Orleans trumpeter and composer Steve Lands reinterprets Gustav Holst's "The Planets" on his album "Rearranging the ...
Saxophonist Joshua Redman has been on the jazz scene for over three decades. He made his debut on his father Dewey Redman’s 1992 album Choices and released his own self-titled album on Warner Bros.
Club spokesman Colin Jilks said: “Chris has faithfully transcribed original 1920s, 30s and 40s Duke Ellington gems into a distillation of tunes arranged for his four-horn front line, creating a ...
Identical twins Peter and Will Anderson, Juilliard-trained jazz virtuosos known for their fresh interpretations of swing-era greats, return to the Eastern Shore on Friday, August 1 for a 7:30 PM ...
On an exuberantly original new album, the singer and pianist reimagine jazz standards from Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others.
<p>Overview</p><p>Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an African-American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader and pianist who led one of the greatest jazz bands, wrote more than 1,500 ...
Maluach is a 7-foot-2, 250-pound big man who spent one season at Duke, where he played in 39 games to average 8.6 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks on 71.2% shooting from the field.
For the Jazz, Knueppel will be among a small group of strong fits at number five, if he winds up falling to their pick. The Hornets, who also have similar reported intrigue in the Duke forward ...