Moran grew up listening to all manner of music, from jazz to reggae to hip-hop. As a teenager he learned to play the Afrika ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Letter to the Musicians' Protective Association from Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Bust of Duke Ellington National Museum ...

More explicitly, he is a composer of jazz music and the leader of a jazz band. For over twenty-three years, Duke, christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, has spent his days and nights on trains ...

My Heart Sings” and about his dream to create a venue in Houston where jazz musicians can find an open mic to jam.

That is the keynote of Duke Ellington's attitude towards his work ... For his favorite writer is the late English composer, Delius, while he prefers Gershwin's and Kern's music among the popular ...

Guided by Duke Ellington’s great canon, Moran takes a solo piano climb up “Mount Ellington” in this extraordinary celebration ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

There are over 100 pieces of music in Prohibition – from nineteenth century hymns to the Tin Pan Alley songs of Irving Berlin to Jazz greats from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington ...

He hinted at plans to perform a Duke Ellington tribute concert with local ... the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation announced pianist, composer and artist Jason Moran as the Artist in Residence ...

When the customer got to ... Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist ...