Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras gala “Got That Swing ...

Our music this evening includes a suite from The River; a ballet Duke Ellington wrote for the Alvin Ailey Dance Company in the 1970's. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream. Tags ...

Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...

People who know Ellington’s music today are likely to think of him as a songwriter. He deserves to be lauded as a composer, and especially as a composer who invented and promulgated concert music that ...

Jazz great Duke Ellington and his band shaped the 20th century American music scene, and his influence lives on in jazz and classical music, like Homage to Duke performed by Imani Winds. Hear it today ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The program includes the NEC Jazz Orchestra in “Braggin' in Brass,” “Jeep's Blues, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This past weekend (May 9 – 11), Jazz at Lincoln Center put the spotlight on the ...

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, ...

Duke Ellington's enduring legacy as a musical pioneer was celebrated at a gala and concert with the soul of America as its undercurrent. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis took ...

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. Wynton ...

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 ...