April 29th marks the 107th anniversary of Edward Kennedy Ellington's birth and in May he will have been gone for 32 years. Yet we have still not come to terms with the magnitude of Duke's legacy not ...

The core of this CD was issued as a vinyl LP named in parallel with Elington’s piano trio masterpiece Piano in the Foreground. Ellington liked verbal cleverness, even when it was pointless and not ...

The divulging of the contents of an extensive variety of archive tapes from Columbia dates, obviously of late by Thelonious Monk, gave some cause to hope there might have been more material from the ...

"First of all the kids in the band want you to know they love you madly" are debonair Duke Ellington's playful opening remarks on this live concert set. Those "kids" he refers to are an incredible ...

The total effect can be a little unnerving. There's an eerie call-and-response episode in the 1928 classic "The Mooche" where Takase uses loud and soft dynamics to suggest physical space — between her ...

A piano played by jazz legend Duke Ellington during a show in Eastbourne is being restored. Ellington, who led and composed music for his band across six decades, performed at the Congress Theatre in ...

(A) Single Petal of a Rose Luigi Palombi, Piano Duke Ellington, Composer Bird of Paradise Duke Ellington, Composer Luigi Palombi, Piano Fleurette Africaine Luigi Palombi, Piano Duke Ellington, ...

NEW YORK - Nearly 300 personal items belonging to jazz great Duke Ellington, including the white baby grand piano on which he composed some of his most famous songs, will be sold at auction on May 18 ...

When I pulled Don Buffington’s name off the internet to tune our family’s antique baby grand piano, I got a bonus. While he was tuning, this Iowa City piano technician extraordinaire, who is still ...

RICHARD RAEL: I'm Richard Rael. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the ...

As the son of one of the towering figures of 20th-century music, Mercer Kennedy Ellington, born March 11, 1919, in Washington, D.C., was all but destined to follow in his father's footsteps. He spent ...