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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 ...

For traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road. Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence ...

Ever since he was a boy, Duke Ellington loved train travel. It excited him, fed his creativity, and gave him space to compose. It led him to write one of his most iconic pieces, a sensation from 1933, ...

This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. Why is it that out of the hundreds of musicians who electrified the nightclubs of ...