The Santa Monica College (SMC) Music Department presents the SMC Jazz Ensemble, SMC Chamber Choir, SMC Concert Chorale, and SMC Jazz Vocal Ensemble in “Duke Ellington: From the Sacred to the Secular.” ...

26th November 1969: American big band leader and legendary jazz pianist Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974), composer of between 2000 / 5000 tunes, on arrival at Heathrow Airport, London, as part of a world ...

Watch Wesley J. Barnes and Derrick D. Truby Jr. perform "Rocks in My Bed" from PLAY ON! Signature Theatre is now presenting Play On!, a musical based on Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, set to the ...

The Kennedy Center’s season-long celebration of Ellington 125 culminates this month, leading up to what would have been the American icon and Washington, D.C. native’s 125th birthday on April 29. The ...

Students with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts are putting on some affordable entertainment for D.C. commuters at Union Station Wednesday. The students are scheduled to perform for free from 4:30 ...

The collection captures Duke Ellington's thoughts on music, performing, composing, and his personal history in his own voice in approximately 20 hours of interviews conducted in 1956 and 1964. The ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sammy Miller is a Juilliard-trained jazz drummer and music educator. The views expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion at CNN. This spring marks both the 50th ...

(This is the first part of a three-part series. Read the second part.) Duke Ellington, whose contours have something of the swell and sweep of a large, erect bear and whose color is that of coffee ...