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Duke Ellington was ahead of his time, envisioning a place for jazz in proper culture, much like what Wynton Marsalis has established at J...

Don’t call the Ellington Orchestra a ghost band.  At least it wasn’t in the early 1980’s.  The maestro would still recognize most of the ...

Even if you have heard Duke Ellington’s band play “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be” thousands of times before, you are still likely to fee...

Many reviewers considered Duke Ellington’s soundtrack an awkward fit for Otto Preminger’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder . However, bot...

What is the best pairing in Martin Ritt’s 1961 Paris Blues ? Easy: the combination of the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with ...

At the Côte D’Azur with Ella Fitzgerald and Joan Miró/Last Jam Sesson Duke Ellington Norman Granz Presents/Eagle Eye Media Edward Kennedy El...

Norman Granz Presents Improvisation Directed by Gjon Mili Eagle Eye Media Albanian Gjon Mili was an accomplished still photographer for Life...

A Duke Named Ellington Council for Positive Images In his youth, Edward Kennedy Ellington would play in the streets of Washington, D.C. as t...