What do Duke and Dilla have in common? The Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop & … Festival offers its own answers
The Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop & … Festival arrives this week with a series of remarkable sessions and concerts...
Tag: Duke Ellington
Seven Tones Project brings musicians and filmmakers together (virtually) to celebrate Duke Ellington
After working on a World War I documentary for four years, D.C.-area filmmaker Paul Glenshaw and his filming partner...
Portrait of a Stray Thread: For Billy Strayhorn’s 100th birthday, East River Jazz throws light on a giant often left in the shadows
As Samora Pinderhuges gazed up from his piano, he let the final cadence of Billy Strayhorn’s signature arrangement of...
Duke Ellington’s 115th birthday with Terry Teachout, author of Duke: A Life (AUDIO)
Today marks the 115th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth. Ellington, who grew up in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood and learned...
Interview | Zachary Oxman on the new Howard Theatre and representing progress with sculpture
by Giovanni Russonello Editorial board The minds that study our past most closely are often the ones with the...
News | The Duke’s legacy shines this month at Strathmore’s Discover Ellington festival
by Ken Avis CapitalBop contributor This Friday, Strathmore Music Center begins its inaugural Discover Ellington festival, nearly a month...
Interview | Nicholas Payton reflects on race, music and the slow death of convention (AUDIO)
“Some musicians and fans thought that I was talking about the music itself, and the tradition, and its history....
Discussion review | Randy Weston & Willard Jenkins bring African Rhythm, wisdom to Sankofa Café
by Luke Stewart Duke Ellington once remarked that his artistic goal was to convey the Black experience in America....