Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn barreling away ... band members can be heard at first chatting and packing up in the background, then subsiding into silence as their leader bears his grief ...

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Group member Shaznay Lewis and producer William Orbit wrote Pure Shores for the soundtrack to the 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film ...

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Duke Ellington was a pioneering composer and bandleader ... in college and worked as a vocal coach for a while. This background helps Casey explain complex singing ideas in ways that are easy ...

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...

Selected by Elizabeth Rosenthal, the author of “The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World.” ...

We did horn parts, dance steps and background vocals ... Stomp,” Charles Mingus’s “Boogie Stop Shuffle” and Duke Ellington’s “Happy Go Lucky Local,” along with several pieces ...