Bill Berry, a renowned jazz cornetist and trumpet player who played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1960s and later formed Bill Berry and the L.A. Band, one of the West Coast’s leading ...

Legacy Band performs Ellington standards, plus songs arranged by band members. Skip to Article. ... Duke Ellington Legacy Band will play at Harrisburg Jazz and Multi-Cultural Festival.

The Duke Ellington Center Big Band, conducted by multi-Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria, will perform CrackerJazz, the third of a monthly performance series honoring jazz icon Duke Ellington on ...

Duke Ellington’s granddaughter explains why he refused to retire: ... And then I would go backstage and there were the wives of the band members who would bring fried chicken.

He was a longtime, key member in one the most widely cherished big band jazz orchestras of all time, the Duke Ellington Orchestra. His name was Harry Carney, and he was from Boston.

Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington hovers over fellow pianist and band member Billy Strayhorn in this 1948 photograph. Courtesy of Limited Runs Their sound was unique to them as a collective.

Ellington and his band members were masters of the most succinct yet complete solos perhaps in jazz history. The two big stars in Duke's orchestral constellation from the early '40s were bassist ...

But he could meld together disparate musical fragments from his band members' solo performances, mastering a "mosaic method of composition." While not a flagrant plagiarist, Ellington still took ...

Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington hovers over fellow pianist and band member Billy Strayhorn in this 1948 photograph. Courtesy of Limited Runs Their sound was unique to them as a collective.