How we got there. A phrase with six tones-apart, yet integral ; Ellington's long road to Newport: apparitions within the music ; Duke's instrument: the '56 band ; The Tiffany label: Columbia Records ; ...
Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...
NEW YORK CITY — Bellevue’s Newport High School was the first local school to perform in the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival on Saturday, part of the first and ...