Thirty-nine oral history interviews created by the Archives Center with Duke Ellington's music and business associates. The interviews cover a range of topics including Ellington as a musician, the ...

Duke Ellington, one of the greatest figures of jazz, died 50 years ago today. The highest form of praise he would apply to others was to call them ‘beyond category’, and Ellington’s own New York Times ...

It's not every day that Audra McDonald stands twenty feet in front of you and says, "Tonight, we are all a part of history." Then again, it's not every day that music history gets made in Orlando - ...

This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. Why is it that out of the hundreds of musicians who electrified the nightclubs of ...

“You can say anything you want on the trombone,” Ellington said in a 1944 profile in the New Yorker, “but you gotta be careful with words.” Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D ...

Ash and charred debris are what remain of the two-story, century-old house at the corner of Pine and Pendleton streets. Once, Duke Ellington stayed here, maybe Dizzy Gillespie, too, along with dozens ...

A study in sepia It was the package that arrived, which prompted me to open an album of memories in the first place. Looking at the photograph, I recall some--not all--of the many details of the ...

Contents of cassettes: Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin, piano) -- Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (James P. Johnson, piano) -- Soda fountain rag / E.K. Ellington (Charles Covington, ...

Duke Ellington should need no introduction. He did it all. He wrote in the neighborhood of 1,000 songs, many quickly becoming Great American Songbook classics. He transcended musical and racial ...

“You think you know Duke Ellington,” six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald teased the crowd in Steinmetz Hall, “but you haven’t heard them all.” Wednesday night saw the end of the nearly two-week ...