"My right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head" — that was how jazz legend Duke Ellington described the composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn, who was born 100 years ago on Nov. 29.

The collection captures Duke Ellington's thoughts on music, performing, composing, and his personal history in his own voice in approximately 20 hours of interviews conducted in 1956 and 1964. The ...

People who know Ellington’s music today are likely to think of him as a songwriter. He deserves to be lauded as a composer, and especially as a composer who invented and promulgated concert music that ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Carter Harman Collection of Interviews with Duke Ellington Carter Harman Collection of Interviews with Duke Ellington / Series 3: Reference Audio ...

Recently, we spoke with Alexa Tarantino, one of the music directors behind Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Duke in Africa show, playing now through January 17. Below, read a conversation with the ...

Duke in Africa features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. It will be led by music directors (and newest JLCO members) Alexa Tarantino and Chris Lewis. It’s a powerful tribute ...

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 ...