It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

There’s no single way to describe George Duke’s sound because he never settled for one. He could make you dance, make you think, and make you feel—sometimes all in the same song. These eight tracks ...

Duke Ellington was a tonal impressionist. Each musician in his band had two functions—to be able to play and to have a special sound. Taken as a whole, his orchestral pieces were like canvases, with ...

All About Jazz: Is the music of Duke Ellington ... And here was Ellington framing that cool delicacy in masterful ensemble writing, evoking moods and humors that seemed fresh on the hundredth ...

Ellington is quoted in the book “Duke Ellington’s America ... members of different schools spontaneously burst into song together. “It’s like the top arts festival,” said Julius ...

Marsalis, the organization's managing and artistic director, told Newsweek: "His music contains American essences that we need to remember about who we are—800 records, 2,000 songs, 50 years on ...

Across the arc of his spectacular 20 th-century career Duke Ellington was a pianist ... showcasing him on songs that are now considered American songbook classics. At least I think I can ...

Marie-Claire Giraud: From Harlem to Hollywood – Songs from Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin ... per year in a setting designed by Broadway’s top scenic, lighting, and sound designers.

It was actually Flea who turned me onto Duke Ellington, bizarrely. And there’s this Live at Newport record, and there’s this one tune, ‘Skin Deep’, which is a classic, but he gives the drummer some.” ...

When I reached Marcus Shelby on the phone at his home in San Francisco he was immersed in the music of Duke Ellington ... approaching these songs with my love of Ellington. He so deeply informed ...

The colors were bright and cartoonish; one could easily imagine a “Fantasia”-animation on top ... on Ellington’s song “Don’t You Know I Care?” After intermission, the Duke Ellington ...

Duke Ellington ... in the best tradition of jazz. Try as they would, Hugues Panassié, the French critic, and Robert Goffin, the Belgian critic, could not discover about Ellington and his band ...