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Duke Ellington ... legend Ellington into something new and equally powerful. Across the various polyrhythms, Moran modeled how jazz can make more than one thing happen at the same time, and ...

A Boswellian friend of Duke’s who was travelling with him at the time took notes on the ... was scowling over a comic magazine. Sonny Greer, Ellington’s jaunty, jouncy drummer, looked up ...

Queen Elizabeth is a blues and jazz fan — and American jazz legend Duke Ellington appears to be on ... audience with the Queen marked the second time he had met the monarch.

Houston native Jason Moran has spent the past several months playing the works of Duke Ellington ... “It gives me time to meditate on him, and just play the songs,” he said in a recent ...