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 ...
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 ...
Duke Ellington plays his piano 50 years after he bought it in the 1920s.Getty Images Jazz fans will want to “Take the ‘A’ Train” to Harlem next week. That’s because some 250 treasures from Duke ...
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 ...
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his ...
LITTLESTOWN — It was late Friday afternoon, and Herb Sell was preparing to play for another crowd, like he's been doing for 80 years. He answered the door of his home in the only town where he's ever ...
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 ...
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