A previous version of this op-ed incorrectly identified Duke Ellington as the first African American to receive the Medal of Freedom. Marian Anderson and Ralph Bunche received the medal in 1963.

An historic double album, the only one to feature the Duke Ellington band in the greatest of its many incarnations, playing a dance date. It captures the immediacy and chaotic magic of the 1940 ...

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 ...

The album also includes make weight bonus tracks from after-hours settings in 1950; three tracks from a jam session at a dance restaurant in Copenhagen and two solo Ellington tunes recorded at a ...

She said she plans to do several Duke Ellington tunes and some Ella Fitzgerald songs. For more information, you can watch the full interview ahead.

In 1973, when Kerr performed at the Manhattan bar Churchill’s, John S. Wilson of The Times wrote, “Mr. Kerr, at 21, is so steeped in Duke Ellington lore that he knows many Ellington tunes even ...

Thanksgiving may be upon us, but Duke Ellington lovers in metro Detroit have an extra reason to party this weekend. Popular, nine-piece Detroit big band Planet D Nonet will play two shows at Ann ...

Duke Ellington recorded two tunes engineered by Conny Plank, a few years before Plank became known for recording rock musicians like Brian Eno.

Long an admirer of Ellington, who grew up in Washington, D.C., and died in 1974, Jackson says he began several years ago to think of ways to interpret the Duke’s music with arrangements of his own.