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taking the lead on Saturday. It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the house band at the Cotton Club on 142nd Street. Even there, where Ellington and his group of ...

To hear Ellington's band stomping through the opening of Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue or the sax soli of Cotton Tail is to experience a sublime understanding of the power of a group. The Duke ...

There are iconic nightclubs – The Cotton Club, Studio 54 ... crisis Cuba where the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Celia Cruz would drink, dance and dazzle.

The story of jazz cannot be complete without reference to the venue that served as the springboard to fame for Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, two of the most notable bandleaders of their time. The ...

Imagine stepping into 1920s Harlem — the streets bursting at the seams with the vibrant energy of Black brilliance set to a boisterous jazzy soundtrack provided by legends like Duke Ellington ...

Generations of musicians carry forward Duke Ellington’s creative flame, honoring his legacy as America’s musical treasure. From electrifying nights at the Cotton Club to the flowing beauty of “The ...

isn’t is in any way authentic, unlike Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Cotton Club which made some attempts to recreate the past. There are obvious inaccuracies in Play On! Duke Ellington didn ...

This sassy American jazz musical relocates Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1940s and sets it to the irresistible songs of Duke Ellington. The story is simplified to ...

Unfortunately, he is in the throes of a rocky patch with The Cotton Club’s star singer ... With a score comprised of the music of legendary jazz master Duke Ellington, and musical arrangement by Liam ...

Few jazz bands have been more distinctive than Duke Ellington’s ... at New York’s popular Cotton Club. Radio broadcasts from the club transmitted his music across the country, expanding ...

Duke Ellington and the sixteen other men in his ... It was playing at a theatre in Philadelphia when the proprietors of the Cotton Club in Harlem, which was just about to open, decided that ...