Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 2—HENDERSON — Almost 100 years ago, Edward Kennedy Ellington gave the downbeat on a jazz number and his orchestra opened a ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

Audience members who attend a Duke Ellington Orchestra performance sometimes get something extra with their price of admission. “When the audience comes to hear The Duke Ellington Orchestra they ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

FORT PIERCE — Sunrise Theatre in historic Downtown Fort Pierce is pleased to present The Duke Ellington Orchestra on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. A world-class big band, The Duke Ellington Orchestra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Duke Ellington performs a "concert of sacred music" with his orchestra as Lena Horne sings at the Fifth Avenue ...

Yaron Gottfried and the Israeli philharmonic orchestra will cover a selection of Duke Ellington's compositions in Tel Aviv and Haifa. All you need is “swing” to make the music of Duke Ellington sing.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick At Carnegie Hall, the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein made a case for Duke Ellington works still rarely heard from ...

Quinten "Rocky" White, a jazz drummer who in his early 20s joined the famed Duke Ellington Orchestra and took part in some of its recordings, has died. He was 56. "He was a remarkable talent on a very ...

Bill Berry, a renowned jazz cornetist and trumpet player who played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1960s and later formed Bill Berry and the L.A. Band, one of the West Coast’s leading big ...

During the final 12 years of his life, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) was notably eclectic in his musical endeavors, but a new recording “Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session” (Grönland ...