Take the A Train Downtown for Ellington Centennial

Thursday, April 29, marks Duke Ellington’s 100th birthday, and it’s not exactly going to be a surprise party. Spontaneity has a way of being drowned out by the larger institutional and corporate jazz interests who’ve been banging the drum for Duke unceasingly of late-witness Jazz at Lincoln Center’s all-Ellington, all-the-time 1999-2000 season and RCA Victor’s Read More