Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This past weekend (May 9 – 11), Jazz at Lincoln Center put the spotlight on the ...

As the world celebrates the 126th birthday of our greatest composer, Duke Ellington, we should mark the lessons his music ...

The Duke Ellington Legacy Band sounds "as classic as the day Duke Ellington gave his music birth, while still sounding like a contemporary jazz band...." says Susan Frances of Jazzreview.com. The Duke ...

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 ...

Aardvark Jazz Orchestra plays Duke Ellington's most iconic tunes. In celebration of the great pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, Boston's Aardvark Jazz Orchestra plays some of his most iconic ...

There are rare insights into Duke Ellington in this book from Jack Chambers, his second on Duke Ellington. Chambers has also written important books on Miles Davis and Richard Twardzik. He is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Duke Ellington visited Coventry in February 1966 [Getty Images] A concert filmed at Coventry Cathedral 60 years ago this week by ...

Duke Ellington, one of the greatest figures of jazz, died 50 years ago today. The highest form of praise he would apply to others was to call them ‘beyond category’, and Ellington’s own New York Times ...

WAILUKU – Jazz Maui presents “Mostly Duke” with famed jazz pianist Tommy James from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024 at the Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate Factory at 78 Ulupono Street in Lahaina.

People who know Ellington’s music today are likely to think of him as a songwriter. He deserves to be lauded as a composer, and especially as a composer who invented and promulgated concert music that ...