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 ...

Even if you’re just a casual jazz fan, you probably recognize “Take the A Train,” Duke Ellington’s swinging theme song. Or ...

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, ...

Some of you will remember "Sophisticated Lady," "Take the 'A' Train" and "Satin Doll." They are three of the many hit tunes turned out by Duke Ellington and his band. There was nobody bigger in the ...

This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. Why is it that out of the hundreds of musicians who electrified the nightclubs of ...

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...

From July through June 2026, the new season will showcase works by John Coltrane, the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and more. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Essentially Ellington once again brought ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The celebration will be co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington—granddaughter of Duke ...

In an age where the term "relevance" feels like the single dominant tenant of nearly all of us in the education community, the significance of the work of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington continues to ...

There are times when Duke Ellington exudes such calm contentment that a colleague, under the influence of the benign radiation, once murmured drowsily, “Duke make me sleepy, like rain on the roof.” ...