Duke found piano playing jobs at clubs and cafes throughout theWashington area. Three months shy of graduation, Duke dropped out ofschool and began his professional music career. Duke Ellington was ...

Duke Ellington, whose contours have something ... identifying him as a mere writer and player of jazz (his instrument is the piano) is like identifying Einstein as a nice old man.

There's a bit of a whirlwind story, with ties to the Netherlands, behind Roosevelt High School's annual performance of The ...

Duke Ellington, the legendary jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader ... regarding the vagaries inherent in many of the published big band piano charts in use at hundreds of colleges and high schools.

Duke Ellington's beginning our association with his story of jazz was surprising to me ... everybody as he worked his way slowly toward the piano. Then, with a bow toward the control room ...

Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant ... including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues.

Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there.

Alexandre Desplat channeled his love of Duke Ellington into the score of 'The Piano Lesson,' Malcolm Washington's feature ...

Thanksgiving may be upon us, but Duke Ellington lovers in metro Detroit have an extra reason to party this weekend.

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 ...

Fred Stride will bring his 15-piece orchestra to the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam on Friday, Dec. 6, for a ...