A nonpareil composer, pianist and bandleader, he arrived in New York from Washington, D.C., just as the Harlem Renaissance was getting underway; soon, the Duke Ellington Orchestra had become the ...

Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke ... Harlem Renaissance. Elegant, dignified, gracious, and constantly performing and composing, Ellington ...

While the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing ... themselves and it all becomes part of my own style.” To know Duke Ellington is to know his band — although few can name its other members ...

Imagine stepping into 1920s Harlem — the streets bursting at the seams with the vibrant energy of Black brilliance set to a boisterous jazzy soundtrack provided by legends like Duke Ellington ...

By Veronica Chambers I’m a Brooklyn girl, but I’m low-key obsessed with the Harlem Renaissance ... listening to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, thumbing through books featuring artwork ...

Nearly a century after the Harlem Renaissance began ... sculptures and installations. "You'll see Duke Ellington performing at the Cotton Club and Cab Calloway dancing while he's conducting ...

some of America's greatest artists and writers found strength in a community that became known as the Harlem Renaissance — a confluence of now-familiar names including Duke Ellington ...