It’s no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That’s done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word ...

I 'live' my music!" That is the keynote of Duke Ellington's attitude towards his work. He is deeply absorbed in it, much more involved in his life-work, music, than other musicians of his type.

And they did that once again Friday at Disney Hall, in a program devoted to the “Love Songs” of Duke Ellington. Despite the title, with its inference that the evening would simply focus on ...

Jazz writer Ted Gioia created a petition to convince the Pulitzer Board to award Duke Ellington with a Pulitzer that he was denied in 1965.