Duke Ellington News

School may be ending, but Westborough's first summer of 2013 concert will be a test of sorts.

Actress and singer Fantasia Barrino announced on The Today Show her plans to join Broadway's Cotton Club Parade this fall.

Herman Leonard captured it all, but one wonders if he planned on capturing the viewer's presence as it's reflected in the glass.

The 9:30 Club , the esteemed rock club that Rolling Stone magazine recently named the best big room in America, has a musical past dating way back before the building's move to 815 V Street in 1996.

For one night only, the piano-playing Yardley MP will lead his horn section through some standards by the likes of George Gershwin, Harold Arlen and his idol Duke Ellington For one night only, the piano-playing Yardley MP will lead his horn section through some standards by the likes of George Gershwin, Harold Arlen and his idol Duke Ellington.

Fantasia Barrino is coming back to Broadway this October. The Grammy winner unveiled her plans to return to the Great White Way on The Today Show on June 12. No word yet on which show Barrino will star in, though a likely vehicle is the Broadway-bound musical Cotton Club Parade .

Historic South-Central's very historic Dunbar Hotel is set to be officially reborn on June 26 as Dunbar Village, a senior-living community , but it's still holding onto its cred as Los Angeles's most legendary jazz spot.

With all the criticism that has sometimes been leveled against him by the jazz cognoscenti who wish he would put on blackface, Brubeck is a musical genius who has had a transformative influence on jazz.

Last December, I was sitting with Ben Tucker and Teddy Adams in the chilly rear courtyard of Foxy Loxy Caf.

The Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra needs no help in drawing an audience. They have a regular residency at the city's best jazz venue, every Monday night, and they routinely sell the place out.

This jazz program will feature popular jazz standards, including distinctive music repertoire by Duke Ellington as well a selection of spirituals and blues music.

Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and composer Luis Russell, was a lifelong friend and colleague of Louis Armstrong.

In the 1940s and '50s, there was no hotter spot for blues and jazz than West Oakland.

For proof that the DC Jazz Festival is rapidly and thoroughly diversifying, look no further than the presence of guitarist Kenny Wessel on the bill.

Keyboardist, composer, arranger and bandleader Clare Fischer was known for his versatile and deft touch with everything from classical to jazz to Latin and Brazilian music.

Duke Ellington elevated the art of big band writing to great heights, but his music was never relegated to the large ensemble corner of the room.

The DC Jazz Festival is underway, and you can expect to see and hear more than 100 performances, in 40 neighborhoods in June.

American music defines African American culture. It is as broad as, the legacy of its people and as of Marian Anderson at the Metropolitan Opera, W.C. Handy's blues on Memphis' Basin Street, Mahalia Jackson's Gospel, Count Basie's blues, Sam Cooke, Duke Ellington, Lady Day, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Miles Davis, Lightning Hopkins, Nat King ... (more)

A young Japanese guitarist gets entranced by jazz. Then he hears what English guitar bands are doing.

Bruce Swedien is truly the godfather of recording engineers, having recorded and mixed hits from everyone from Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie to Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer and Michael Jackson.