R&B star Brian McKnight: 'Jazz is in my blood'
R&B star Brian McKnight: 'Jazz is in my blood'New York Daily NewsHe's proving his point Thursday and Friday at the Blue Note, singing and swinging with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. When he first performed in 2010 with the large ensemble, founded by the greatest jazz composer in history (who died in 1974), ...Serenading the Crowd, Smoothly, After a StormNew York Timesall 5 news articles »
BPO showcases 2 of Ellington's orchestral scores
BPO showcases 2 of Ellington's orchestral scoresBuffalo NewsBy Herman Trotter The Buffalo Philharmonic's two-week Duke Ellington Festival concludes this weekend with the performance of two of Ellington's major orchestral scores, a suite from a 1970 ballet score “The River,” and the 1943 “Black, Brown and Beige.
Symphony takes a musical trip through Detroit
Symphony takes a musical trip through DetroitRedlands Daily FactsIf you want to motor to the finale of the 2011-12 Redlands Symphony Orchestra season, take Michael Daugherty's "Motor City Triptych," stroll on the banks of Duke Ellington's "The River" and listen to Carl Maria von Weber's music transformed into Paul ...
Letting Jazz Have a Turn Interpreting the Poets
Letting Jazz Have a Turn Interpreting the PoetsNew York TimesAs suites, and in some aspects of arrangement and harmony, they contained the spirit and substance of Duke Ellington. But in other ways they embodied what we can call the Jazz at Lincoln Center impulse: be ambitious, be noble, be narrative, ...Wynton Marsalis and 'Heartbeat' of Jazz Play HuntingtonPatch.comall 2 news articles »
Douglaston's Own: Bob Haggart
Douglaston's Own: Bob HaggartPatch.comIn 1942, he broke away from the band and began recording with a number of jazz legends, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald. He arranged a number of the songs on Louis Armstrong's ...