Duke Ellington’s 1980 Grammy for the album, “Duke Ellington At Fargo, 1940 Live,” hits the auction block Tuesday, Feb. 27, through the international auction company Bonhams.

Ella Fitzgerald made history on May 4, 1959, as the first woman to win a Grammy Award. The “First Lady of Song” took home two ...

For over 50 years, Duke Ellington toured the world as a jazz composer, bandleader and pianist. Here are seven facts about the artist.

Wynton Marsalis, the Grammy award-winning jazz master, is celebrating the legacy of Duke Ellington. He and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are performing works from Ellington’s catalogue.

Jazz at the Kennedy Center’s commemoration launches on March 15, 2024 with Ellington’s very own Grammy Award®–winning supergroup, The Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Dave Chappelle has won his fifth Grammy for best comedy album and second in a row for What’s in a Name, a 40-minute Netflix special taken from a speech at his former high school, the Duke ...

Dave Chappelle unveils the new name of the theatre during the Dave Chappelle theatre dedication ceremony at Duke Ellington School of the Arts on June 20, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Jazz writer Ted Gioia created a petition to convince the Pulitzer Board to award Duke Ellington with a Pulitzer that he was denied in 1965.

Grammy winner for Best Performance By a Dance Band, Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 (More than Five Minutes), and Best Soundtrack Album Duke Ellington during a special ...

Here are all the artists who won Grammys and performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in the same year.

"The other winners on that list, being that it includes people like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, even Quincy Jones and Henry Mancini, sort of branching out of the jazz world.