Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The celebration will be co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington—granddaughter of Duke ...

To call Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington inimitable is to actually downplay his mythic role in world culture, as no American figure — be he from the realm of jazz or any other musical idiom — has ever ...

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 ...

Despite their years in the spotlight, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein had never met face to face, until a summer's day in 1966 in Milwaukee. Both men were performing concerts at Milwaukee's ...