Dave Black, a brilliant jazz drummer who swung Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1950s and was equally at home playing with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Earl "Fatha" Hines, died at home ...

Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer and bandleader who combined remarkable instrumental virtuosity with far-ranging compositional skills, has died. He was 84. According to his wife, Francine, Bellson ...

Quinten "Rocky" White, a jazz drummer who in his early 20s joined the famed Duke Ellington Orchestra and took part in some of its recordings, has died. He was 56. "He was a remarkable talent on a ...

Heckman is a freelance writer. Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer and bandleader who combined remarkable instrumental virtuosity with far-ranging compositional skills, has died. He was 84. According to ...

To know Duke Ellington is to know his band — although few can name its other members today. The defining sound of his charter band came from drummer Sonny Greer. Before drum sets were ...

Duke Ellington always had this way of pulling strong emotions from the keys of his piano. On the 1962 version of “Solitude,” featuring the bassist Charles Mingus and the drummer Max Roach ...

“Duke Ellington’s music represents so much more ... pianist Myra Melford and drummer Allison Miller. Drawing on a shared passion for the preservation of nature and a boundary stretching ...

bassist Jimmy Blanton and drummer Tricky Sam Nanton. Duke Ellington's band, from right, Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, Juan Tizol, Tricky Sam Nanton, Sonny Greer, Ben Webster, Wallace Jones ...

both recorded for Duke Ellington’s Mercer record label in November of 1950. Our next set of Mercer Records selections features “She,” a tune written by drummer Louis Bellson and trombonist ...

Duke enjoys telling how he recruited Sonny, who was greatly admired by Ellington and the other young men in the band because he came from New York. “Sonny was a very fly drummer,” Duke says ...