Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This past weekend (May 9 – 11), Jazz at Lincoln Center put the spotlight on the ...

In July 1970, Duke Ellington recorded two tunes engineered by Conny Plank. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says The Conny Plank Session, which is now on CD, is a window onto Ellington's working method.

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 coined ...

Jazz pianist Ellington Carthan’s skill has spanned years performing and producing his own work. He’s taken stages across the D.C. area, including at Blues Alley, the Library of Congress, and the ...

Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts ...

FARGO — It was 75 years ago Saturday that Duke Ellington taught Fargo how to swing. Four decades later, an amateur recording from that cold night shared Fargo's lesson with the world. Stashed away in ...

The grand scale of events on Beef & Boards’ stage throws a glow over us in the seats. I look around and see bodies moving as the on-stage big band, under Teneh K.C. Karimu’s direction, calls us into ...

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 best album ever made by Duke Ellington—which is to say, one of the best albums in jazz—is also one of his least-known. It attracted scant attention upon its release, in 1951, and no particular ...

[Music] American Negro very trustingly have come along a hundred years now after the Emancipation Proclamation and of course now their their demands are coming more strong and as it should be their ...

The Boston-born musician Randall Keith Horton says Duke Ellington changed the course of his life. Perhaps one of the most defining titles Horton ever had was as Ellington's conductor and composing ...

We asked jazz musicians, writers and others to tell us what moves them. Listen to their choices. By Giovanni Russonello and Marcus J. Moore A few years ago, Zachary Woolfe, a New York Times critic and ...