Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as Duke Ellington, born on April 29, 1899, was a composer, pianist, and bandleader ...

The pervasive sultry sounds and hypnotic syncopations of Latin-America’s artistic heritage have pulsed across the Americas’ ...

Houston native Jason Moran has spent the past several months playing the works of Duke Ellington ... grew up listening to all manner of music, from jazz to reggae to hip-hop.

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a ...

Born in Washington, D.C., Eve was in her early 20s when she got her big break, discovered by famed jazz composer Duke ...

A veritable giant in the history of jazz and the early years of popular music, Duke Ellington is rightly revered for his abilities as a composer and bandleader, but the fact that he was also a ...

Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz. With more than 2,000 albums ... for string quartet and bass featuring the music of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington ...

Whether it’s swing, hot, cool, bebop, modal, free, or fusion, uDiscover has something for everyone in this list of the best jazz songs ever. According to Duke Ellington’s biographer ...

He remembers the jazz playing in the family apartment: Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald. His parents bought him sheet music so he could play along. Music-playing ...

Both singers felt insecure about their lack of education, neither could read sheet music, and while Jones ... and the winner of nine Grammys, Duke Ellington. “I want to introduce you to a ...