As soon as Sell started playing, the surprised band members jumped back on stage to join him. "I've never seen anyone over 70" Dutterer said, "whose fingers have the dexterity to play the way he ...

These free Marion Big Band concerts feature music made famous by mid-century artists such as Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Count ...

It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the house band at the Cotton Club on 142nd Street. Even there, where Ellington and his group of Black musicians played in ...

Central High's Jazz Band won the 2025 "Essentially Ellington" High School Competition and Festival, which took place between May 7-11, 2025. This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named ...

David Nguyen, a 17-year-old member of the Ellington Band who attends University High School, plays the saxophone, clarinet and trumpet and said he is trying to pick up even more instruments ...

Jason Moran heads to Berklee for a solo showcase honoring Duke Ellington By Bill Beuttler Globe correspondent,Updated February 27, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration with CSUN’s Jazz A Band, celebrating Duke Ellington, composer and ...

Duke Ellington’s genius bloomed through his masterful orchestration style. He crafted rich harmonies by weaving together individual musicians’ voices, boldly departing from standard band arrangements.

They had a daughter, Tami Zoe Hill. Hudson last performed in public on April 16, 2023, in Kingston at the Flower Hill House Concert No. 6, where he played Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady.” ...

Popular, nine-piece Detroit big band Planet D Nonet will play two shows at Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club on Friday, Nov. 29, to celebrate the release of their latest album.

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

MUSIC REVIEW BSO’s Ellington homage dances through the darkness By A.Z. Madonna Globe Staff,Updated November 8, 2024, 3:54 p.m.