Joni Mitchell has always had a strong relationship with jazz, and her love for pianist Duke Ellington is a significant one to her development.
A historic theater on Mt. Vernon Avenue that hosted Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald is headed for an encore after receiving state financial help Wednesday. The state agreed to ...
The pair spent 26 years filming Jazz Fest, and Murphy was one of the founding partners of House of Blues. Among other film projects, the two produced “Make It Funky,” a history of rhythm and blues in ...
What: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Harlem Nutcracker Suite,” performed by the Marcus Shelby Orchestra When: 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 Where: Raven Performing Arts Theater ...
The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires welcomes journalist and author Larry Tye, who will talk about his new book, "The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed ...
Two of the great pioneering geniuses of jazz are united on this epochal record, created from sessions cut in April 1961 when Duke Ellington sat in as pianist with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars, a ...
The historic tax credit application estimates the total cost of the renovation will be $12.8 million. So far, the project has ...
Last night St. Louis Dance Theatre joined Jazz St. Louis in a production of Nutcracker—that remarkable Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.