Interlochen jazz students and director speak to IPR about their upcoming performance featuring Duke Ellington's ...

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Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...

This holiday season, Austin audiences will see a Nutcracker like never before. On Friday, December 19, 2025, ATX Artists for ...

Smithsonian Jazz Intern Jake Huss shares the stories behind the selections heard at the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's holiday concert this year. The Queen's Suite is as beautiful and ...

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It is certainly one of the most perfect evenings I’ve ever spent in a theater! Last night St. Louis Dance Theatre joined Jazz St. Louis in a production of Nutcracker—that remarkable Duke ...

Band leader and baritone saxophonist Byron Colborn brings his eighteen piece band to Davis for a seasonal concert. The program features Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s jazzed up arrangements of ...

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The Auditorium Theatre lost its holiday staple when the Joffrey Ballet moved to the Lyric Opera House in 2021. But that beautiful, gold-trimmed venue in the Loop may have a new winner with “Sugar Hill ...

For bassist, composer, and arranger Marcus Shelby, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for his talent-laden jazz orchestra, an ensemble he modeled ...

Jazz up December with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's swinging re-do of The Nutcracker Suite. Then, rev-up for the new year with two historic Ellington Orchestra dance dates: Fargo 1940 & Travis ...