Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz ... an event which eventually resulted in the “Queen's Suite." Earlier in the year, his strange obsession with royalty had produced a ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz ... an event which eventually resulted in the “Queen's Suite." Earlier in the year, his strange obsession with royalty had produced a ...

When I reached Marcus Shelby on the phone at his home in San Francisco he was immersed in the music of Duke Ellington ... opening piece from Ellington’s 1947 “Liberian Suite.” ...

Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington. Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the turn of the century and exposed early on to ...

What was Duke Ellington’s most significant contribution to long-form jazz composition? Ellington’s “Black, Brown and Beige,” premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1943, was a groundbreaking 50-minute suite ...

Kudzu Queen ... X Suite,” the second movement (“Hope in the Night”) of William Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony,” spirituals sung by baritone Schauntice Marshall, a medley of Duke ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

Love and Anders Osborne, the punky Southern roots trio Kudzu Queen, a trio of Broadway stars ... by baritone Schauntice Marshall, a medley of Duke Ellington compositions and more.

She earned her bachelor’s in chemistry from Queens ... Suite” and “Cry,” which featured a woman solo created for his mother. He also created works set to jazz music greats like Duke ...