Smithsonian Jazz Intern Jake Huss shares the stories behind the selections heard at the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's holiday concert this year. The Queen's Suite is as beautiful and ...

"Ellington came up, and her appreciation of music and instruments and how they're amplified just floored me for about a minute," British jazz musician Gary Crosby said of his conversation with the ...

Duke Ellington’s adaptation of “Rhapsody in Blue” – The Duke Ellington Orchestra Like a lot of music fans, my playlist is constantly in flux — but this recording from 1962 is always in the mix. When ...

Duke Ellington had a wit and air that was only surpassed by the brilliant use of his greatest instrument: his Orchestra. He also composed over 1,500 songs, so this is in no way a comprehensive ...

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 ...

Duke Ellington, pictured here in the early years of his career, performed in Eastbourne in 1973 A piano played by jazz legend Duke Ellington during a show in Eastbourne is being restored. Ellington, ...

President Biden is announcing a new plan that protects undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens from deportation. NPR's Sergio Martínez-Beltrán tells us more. Then, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of ...