These recordings by Duke Ellington from 1937-39 emphasize his unique ... from where all but the last three numbers of this collection would be broadcast. The original Cotton Club where Ellington made ...

CD1: Swing Session; Medley: Solitude; In A Sentimental Mood; Harmony In Harlem; If You Were In My Place; Mood Indigo; East St. Louis Toodl-Oo; Oh Babe, Maybe Someday; Dinah’s In A Jam; If Dreams Come ...

Ellington on Broadway The Cotton Club fixture known as a pivotal figure ... Jazz musician, composer, conductor and piano player Duke Ellington. An accomplished choreographer, tap dancer and ...

Play On! is, delightfully, a peach of the genre, a stylish and witty transposing of Twelfth Night, for my money Shakespeare’s ...

This sassy American jazz musical relocates Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1940s and sets it to ...

Duke Ellington’s version of racial subversion ... His 1929 radio broadcasts from Harlem’s Cotton Club were, in the words of historian Philip K. Eberly, “the first important national ...

The resplendently renovated City Center puts its best foot forward, with tap shoes, in "Cotton Club Parade." With no text to interrupt, this “Parade” features 24 musical spots in succession.

It makes sense: Marsalis is to modern jazz what Ellington was 80 years ago, and if any modern jazz group evokes the Cotton Club sound, it's JLCO. The Orchestra specializes in keeping jazz modern ...