Duke Ellington News

Fundraiser to benefit the work of the First United Church Mission featuring Dee Daniels and James Caddell performing with the Fred Stride Orchestra, St.

In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is taking notice.

Once, as they were jamming, Duke Ellington 's drummer Sam Woodyard called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, "Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naively innocent wit so typical of his homeland, "From now on then my name is only Mussen." There is just one Svend Asmussen and today, at the age ...

Kent State University kicked off the Salem Concert Series Sunday afternoon by mixing a little art with a lotta jazz from the KSU Jazz Ensemble.

Recent Listening: Dick Katz Dick Katz , The Line Forms Here . The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording.

TRAIN, powered by Duke Ellington's genius, roared into the station a few minutes after 1 pm on Monday and for the next hour or so, every stop along its way pulsed with music - not unnecessary noise or lyrics of confrontation and denigration.

Miles Davis made more money. Duke Ellington was more prolific. CharlieParker was more revered.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 7:27 am US/Eastern Art D'Lugoff, whose famed New York City nightclub, the Village Gate, featured performers from jazz great Duke Ellington to 1960s counterculture rocker Jimi Hendrix, has died at age 85, his brother said.

It's not often that you get to talk to someone 91 years old, not to mention one who has played, written or arranged for Duke Ellington and hundreds of other jazz luminaries.

Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans.

Johnny Mercer, the Savannah songwriter with the gap-toothed smile, wrote songs with everyone from Duke Ellington to Sadie Vimmerstedt.

The Indian Hills Community College Jazz Band, directed by David Sharp, will present its free Fall Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in St.

Wynton Marsalis translates life into jazz. Duke Ellington liked to do that too, but Mr.

Drake State Technical College student Carla Henry is just back from her second Kennedy Center appearance in Washington as part of the National HBCU Concert Choir - 105 Voices of History.

The Columbus Jazz Orchestra will perform this program at 8 o'clock tonight through Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St.

This year's Third Thursdays series ends with a flourish tonight, filling the streets with music in honor of the annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival.

More on Soupy and the giants of jazz. Soupy Sales remembers a few of the jazz greats who appeared on 'Soupy's On.' Ella Fitzgerald, vocalist: 'Ella was wonderful.

Kev Choice is one of the the dopest young musicians I know in Oakland. And I would have to say that L-Boogie aka Lauryn Hill agrees with me, since she hired this dude to be her band leader.

The cleverness of improvisation plays an integral part of this Russian trio's compositions that merely reference jazz standards.

Legendary trombonist Don Doane, who has played with Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, takes the stage for Harvestfest today.