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 ...

Across the arc of his spectacular 20 th-century career Duke Ellington was a pianist, a bandleader, a composer and arranger…and, at one time, Duke Ellington was a record-label owner. At the ...

By Hank Shteamer Video by Ariel Fisher and Tim Schutsky Jason Moran has spent the past year living with the music of Duke Ellington, playing a series of concerts honoring the 125th anniversary of ...

Duke Ellington left a formidable discography at his death at the age of 75 in 1974, and it has expanded greatly with the number of concerts that have been uncovered and issued since then. This CD is ...

Newspapers across the country picked up the story, with headlines screaming, “Duke Ellington Joins Sitdowners; Can’t Eat,” and photos showing the rakish maestro being ushered out of the Blue ...

An excerpt from Larry Tye’s The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. “Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?” asked a 1921 Ladies Home Journal ...

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 nightclub ...

“Should we stay away from this guy? Is he crazy?” In a sense, yes: I am crazy about Duke Ellington. This month — Monday, to be precise — marks the 125th anniversary of Edward Kennedy ...