Editor’s Note: Sammy Miller is a Juilliard-trained jazz drummer and music educator. The views expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion at CNN. This spring marks both the 50th ...

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's collaboration was not just about music—it was about storytelling through jazz. Together, ...

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This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader, composer and pianist died 50 years ago. In the new book “The Jazzmen,” biographer Larry Tye sets out to ...

A celebrative performance honoring jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington is going down at Keystone Corner this weekend. Baltimore-based and internationally renowned singer Navasha Daya has ...

I stand on the train platform. Cold, gray weather presses down. Dystopian headlines fill the news; angst-inducing messages shake my phone. But ignoring it all, I tap my toe and bop my head. The music ...

This holiday season, Austin audiences will see a Nutcracker like never before. On Friday, December 19, 2025, ATX Artists for ...

I fully appreciate Duke Ellington's importance and contribution to jazz. But for the longest time I've never been overly nuts about his music. For years, I felt that a large percentage of his works ...

Mercedes Ellington is keeping her grandfather’s iconic sound alive. The uptown eatery named for iconic composer and bandleader Duke Ellington will finally be the home to his music on Sunday. Ellington ...

The most recent iteration of the jazz venue, located far west on 125th Street below the Riverside Drive viaduct, played its ...

Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington shared one of jazz’s most legendary musical partnerships. Strayhorn, a brilliant composer ...