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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.
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.
On an exuberantly original new album, the singer and pianist reimagine jazz standards from Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others.
Ashley Henry With Henry, a vocalist/pianist/band leader primarily pounding away on the keys at the piano, this masterful album mostly carries the feel of a traditional jazz ensemble. But the ...
The Duke Ellington Orchestra performs "Take the A Train" with singer Betty Roché in the film "Reveille with Beverly," released January 1943. Bettmann / Getty Images ...
Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of the great pianist, composer and bandleader’s birth.
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 ...
A Sunday afternoon concert in Windsor's Sandwich Towne will celebrate the legacy of Duke Ellington. The jazz giant was born 125 years ago, in 1899. "He was really one of a handful of musicians in ...
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, ...