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“Sophisticated Ladies” is an all-singing, all-dancing romp through Duke Ellington’s enduring songs, including “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Caravan,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” and ...

Ninety years ago this month, Duke Ellington and his jazz orchestra made one of their most emblematic and memorable recordings, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).” The title became a ...

The Jazzopaters. Photo by Fred Aube. Paris is a city for dreaming. Guitarist Nick Rossi flew to the City of Lights a year ago for the International Duke Ellington Meeting, a three-day conference for ...

Jazz great Duke Ellington famously composed “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing” in 1931. And fifth-graders from Aiken and surrounding counties proved Friday morning they've definitely ...

Duke Ellington and band members playing baseball in front of their segregated motel ("Astor Motel") while touring in Florida. Charlotte Brooks, photographer, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, ...

Duke Ellington didn't consider himself a jazz musician. He said he was a musician who played jazz. And what a musician: pianist, bandleader, composer of more than 1,000 songs including standards like ...

Consists of interviews with Duke Ellington, transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, and scripts for motion pictures, musical reviews, and plays written for or by Duke Ellington. The records ...

In July 1970, Duke Ellington recorded two tunes engineered by Conny Plank. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says The Conny Plank Session, which is now on CD, is a window onto Ellington's working method.