Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts ...

Experience an evening of elegance, passion, and timeless jazz with the CJRO big band at the Arvada Center. The ...

Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church in Clearwater, Florida. Fans never have to go far to see trumpeter James Suggs or ...

Jazz pianist Ellington Carthan’s skill has spanned years performing and producing his own work. He’s taken stages across the D.C. area, including at Blues Alley, the Library of Congress, and the ...

FARGO — It was 75 years ago Saturday that Duke Ellington taught Fargo how to swing. Four decades later, an amateur recording from that cold night shared Fargo's lesson with the world. Stashed away in ...

It’s no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That’s done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined ...

The grand scale of events on Beef & Boards’ stage throws a glow over us in the seats. I look around and see bodies moving as the on-stage big band, under Teneh K.C. Karimu’s direction, calls us into ...

Mercedes Ellington is keeping her grandfather’s iconic sound alive. The uptown eatery named for iconic composer and bandleader Duke Ellington will finally be the home to his music on Sunday. Ellington ...

The best album ever made by Duke Ellington—which is to say, one of the best albums in jazz—is also one of his least-known. It attracted scant attention upon its release, in 1951, and no particular ...

[Music] American Negro very trustingly have come along a hundred years now after the Emancipation Proclamation and of course now their their demands are coming more strong and as it should be their ...