Duke Ellington recorded Masterpieces by Ellington, an ambitious album that redefined jazz composition. This deep dive ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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