San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never gets tired of performing Duke Ellington's jazzy ...

Duke Ellington had international appeal. Here he performs in West Germany. All photos courtesy of the Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center at the American History Museum Jazz trumpeter Wynton ...

The scope and breadth of Duke Ellington's compositions were far-reaching, drawing many influences together to create a cohesive and diverse sound.... Duke Ellington: The Composer, Pt. 2 Duke Ellington ...

Duke Ellington didn't consider himself a jazz musician. He said he was a musician who played jazz. And what a musician: pianist, bandleader, composer of more than 1,000 songs including standards like ...

Duke Ellington plays his piano 50 years after he bought it in the 1920s.Getty Images Jazz fans will want to “Take the ‘A’ Train” to Harlem next week. That’s because some 250 treasures from Duke ...

I stand on the train platform. Cold, gray weather presses down. Dystopian headlines fill the news; angst-inducing messages shake my phone. But ignoring it all, I tap my toe and bop my head. The music ...

To the thousands who enjoyed numbers like Satin Doll, Mood Indigo and Sophisticated Lady, he was the languid maestro who used the royal “we” when he assured his audiences that “We do love you madly.” ...

Duke Ellington celebrated his 70th birthday on April 29, 1969 as a guest of President Richard Nixon at the White House. In addition to receiving the distinguished Medal of Freedom, Ellington witnessed ...

Mercedes Ellington is keeping her grandfather’s iconic sound alive. The uptown eatery named for iconic composer and bandleader Duke Ellington will finally be the home to his music on Sunday. Ellington ...

Duke Ellington should need no introduction. He did it all. He wrote in the neighborhood of 1,000 songs, many quickly becoming Great American Songbook classics. He transcended musical and racial ...