Blacks in Wax performance is moving away from the Kennedy Center for 2025. Now in its 19th year, this year's theme celebrates ...

(This is the first part of a three-part series. Read the second part.) Duke Ellington, whose contours have something of the swell and sweep of a large, erect bear and whose color is that of coffee ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Letter to the Musicians' Protective Association from Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Bust of Duke Ellington National Museum ...

Jason Moran has spent the past year immersing himself in the music of Duke ... of Ellington compositions, augmented by Gordon Parks photographs of Ellington. Other performances have followed ...

Houston native Jason Moran has spent the past several months playing the works of Duke Ellington, marking last year’s 125th anniversary of the composer's birth. Last Thanksgiving I saw him play ...

Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on April 4-5 and ... all set to the iconic music of Duke Ellington’s “Three Suites.” Audiences will embark on a magical journey through an enchanted forest ...

The artist will also perform at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on Tuesday, April 15 during the festival's preview event.

Thanks to the Luther L. Wright High School Jazz Band, a Theatre North audience on March 14 heard some of jazz icon Duke ...

Jazz and Opera Singer Marie-Claire Giraud Premieres at 54 Below, April 6, 2025, New York, NY Marie-Claire Giraud Brings Fresh Life to Timel ...

Don Warrington tells a story of a remarkable rebirth, as a down-on-his-luck Duke Ellington spontaneously and joyously sparks his band into life at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Show more Don ...