Duke Ellington News

The Cleveland Orchestra concludes its acclaimed 2012-13 Celebrity Series tonight, May 18, when Patti Austin performs with the Orchestra in a concert that pays homage to the revered jazz classics of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington.

Grammy Award-winning producer and NEA Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis brings "Sweet Thunder" to the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake.

The Hanover Theatre will be honoring the Legacy of Music Worcester this Sunday as part of the ongoing Access Hanover Lyceum.

New York, NY Tonight, Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announced the high school jazz bands in the nation who took the highest honors at the prestigious 18th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall , home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The Cleveland Orchestra James Feddeck, conductor Patti Austin , vocalist A tribute to Ella and Duke Saturday, May 18 8:00 p.m. Songstress Patti Austin pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington in performance with The Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday, May 18 This season's Celebrity Series of the Cleveland Orchestra is coming to a close with ... (more)

Jutta Hipp is not a name that means much to most jazz fans. A talented German pianist, she seems to have had a very short enigmatic career, a moment or two of fame and then she was gone.

To call Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington inimitable is to actually downplay his mythic role in world culture, as no American figure - be he from the realm of jazz or any other musical idiom - has ever matched his spectacular and ceaseless creativity.

Duke Ellington's grandson brought a breach of contract action against a group of music publishers; he sought to recover royalties allegedly due under a 1961 contract.

The Topeka Festival Singers will close their 2012-13 season with "Swingin' with the TFS," a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in White Concert Hall which will feature both the chorus and several soloists singing songs from the Swing Era of pop music.

The band Sexmob specializes in a distinct strain of deconstructionist improvised music: jazz that aims at fun by bouncing off the walls.

Open Music Collective with be celebrating three end of the semester concerts featuring the "Outside-In Band" on Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m., followed by the OMC youth Ensemble on Tuesday, May 14, at 8 p.m., and the "Venerable Sextet" on Wednesday, May 15, at 5:30 p.m. The "Outside-In Band" is a band led by bassist Jamie MacDonald who is presenting ... (more)

Whether it is the music of Duke Ellington, the unique style of Ahmal Jamal or the magical voice of Ella Fitzgerald with her perfect pitch and ability to scat, whatever jazz is being played, you can bet lovers of this genre will be out in force and always appreciative.

Slim like a knife, looking sharp, vest buttoned, guitar in hand. Alejandro Escovedo says Texas, but he speaks New York.

EMI Music will be allowed to pay itself for the foreign exploitation of Duke Ellington music, a New York appeals court has ruled.

The bass, piano, drums and sax were playing Duke Ellington's “Come Sunday” - an appropriate selection since the Sunday-evening concert venue was a church.

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation named its music education center under construction at 1225 N. Rampart St.

At 93, Pete Ferno is as old as jazz and just as cool. Once a month, you'll find him behind a set of drums laying down the rhythms for his performing partner, Art Houle.

Everyone uses it: locals; out-of-town vets; first timers who know, as soon as they get a taste, that they are coming back for more.

Two Seattle jazz musicians were honored today with awards from the Jazz Journalists Association, based in New York.

Enjoy one or two music performances on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh.