His jazz writings include the prize winning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo Press, 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury ...

Three years later the Duke’s sister, Ruth Ellington Boatwright ... curator John Edward Hasse would write the definitive Ellington biography. He has not-but even so, this may well be the most ...

Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong ... James Kaplan’s triple biography weaves together ‘3 Shades of Blue’ in the backstories of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and ...

Ellington, Basie, Armstrong: So rich were their accomplishments that it is easy ... he acquired his nickname, Duke, in middle school. Preternaturally self-possessed, he cultivated his regal ...

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 nightclub ...

Then it’s time to give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize ... I was struck by the opinions of James Lincoln Collier, whose 1987 biography of Ellington was devoted to dissing much of Ellington ...

This year marks 125 years since the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington. The bandleader, composer and pianist died 50 years ago. In the new book “The Jazzmen,” biographer Larry Tye sets out to ...

Here are seven facts about the artist you may not have known. 1. Teddy Roosevelt would sometimes watch Duke Ellington play baseball. Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as “Duke,” was born ...