Visitors to Luverne in the southwest corner of Minnesota will encounter a new star-spangled sight looming over the prairie: a 65-foot-tall nutcracker that could be the tallest in the world. Workers ...

Late Milwaukee legend Minnette Wilson, whose colorful life included dancing on tour with jazz great Duke Ellington, took credit as the inspiration for Ellington's classic "Satin Doll," running a bar ...

A former teacher at D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison Friday. Mark Williams was convicted in February of sexually abusing a former student at the ...

On Dec. 19, 1950, Duke Ellington took his orchestra into a New York studio and recorded one of the most consequential albums of his career. LP technology was new, and “Masterpieces by Ellington” was ...

Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts showcasing the expansiveness of a form that is arguably our country’s greatest ...

San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never gets tired of performing Duke Ellington's jazzy 1960 "The Nutcracker Suite" based on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet score. "I ...

The Marcus Shelby New Orchestra appears in an SFJazz holiday show on Dec. 21 in San Francisco. (SFJazz via Bay City News) San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never ...

This year’s production of Tchaikovsky’s much loved Nutcracker at London’s glorious Coliseum theatre is a truly enchanting experience for audiences of all ages. This refreshed version of the festive ...

Mr. Sun will perform Wednesday at Ent Center for the Arts. Courtesy Ent Center for the Arts Partake in a non-traditional holiday concert with Mr. Sun, a bluegrass group, as the four musicians put ...

General admission: $20, ASU students: $10 Tickets: alasu.flicket.io Box office contact: 334-229-6929 or 334-604-8186 Performances are Dec. 11-12 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Leila Barlow ...

In 2006, Delfeayo Marsalis was recruited to play in a performance of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s version of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” But the New Orleans trombonist didn’t love the ...

String band Mr. Sun released its reinterpretation of Duke Ellington’s reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” in 2023. It will bring the strings to the Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs Dec ...