Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

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 ...

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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 ...