As The Great Gatsby turns 100, take a look at the world of crime, music and culture that inspired some of the art of the Lost ...

The cross-genre musician’s style has an upbeat refinement to it. It’s part of the history and soul tradition he makes his own ...

The great soul singer and actress Beverley Knight often transcends the theatrical material she’s given. So it proves again in this two-hander about pioneering gospel singer and guitarist Sister ...

In 1974, Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer and band leader ... In 1927, he got his big break and moved into the Cotton Club in Harlem, which offered him a platform to develop his career. By 1931, ...

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 ...

Ellington eventually left the Cotton Club and began appearing in cities all over America. In 1933 he embarked upon his most ambitious tour, crossing the Atlantic to appear in Britain. The Duke’s ...

Born in Washington, D.C., Eve was in her early 20s when she got her big break, discovered by famed jazz composer Duke Ellington who ... she’s back in the club.” A talented artist whose ...

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 ...

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 ...