This week, Harry Styles makes a glittering pivot to the discotheque, Arctic Monkeys return with a swaying charity single, and Wizkid and Asake unite for a sleek highlight from their collaborative EP.

Despite their years in the spotlight, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein had never met face to face, until a summer's day in 1966 in Milwaukee. Both men were performing concerts at Milwaukee's ...

Layla Bunch may only be 17 years old, but she has already accomplished more than many her age could ever dream. She attends the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest D.C. as an opera singer ...

“Play On!” is a Duke Ellington jukebox musical that doesn’t get around much anymore since its two-month Broadway run back in the spring of 1997. Signature Theatre’s vibrant and propulsive revival — ...

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...

Duke Ellington's enduring legacy as a musical pioneer was celebrated at a gala and concert with the soul of America as its undercurrent. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis took ...

A Vulture series in which studio musicians select their best performances. “I used to go all the way to the backroom, find a guitar, smash it against the wall, and go to the manager and say, ‘Hey, ...

For its 30 th iteration, America’s premier high school jazz band competition, the Essentially Ellington competition and festival at Lincoln Center in New York City, has expanded the 2025 field from 15 ...

Play On! is a musical riff on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, set in the infamous Cotton Club in 1940s Harlem. Charming, enchanting, laugh-out-loud funny, and chock full of talent, this show is quite the ...

Jim Latimer is trying to soft pedal the serendipity of what’s happening this week, but it’s not going to fly. “I don’t see what everybody is getting excited about,” Latimer said over the weekend. “To ...