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 »
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 ...
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.
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 »
On Jazz: Akua Dixon's swingin' strings
On Jazz: Akua Dixon's swingin' stringsThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com... composed and arranged innovative jazz works for strings for three decades, and played in many Broadway orchestras. The founder of Quartette Indigo, she has performed with everyone from Duke Ellington to Diana Ross, and leads her group at Shanghai ...