Collective Duke Ellington- piano & arranger; Billy Strayhorn- piano & arranger; Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Roy Burrowes, Ray Nance, Eddie Preston, Bill Berry, Rolf Ericson, Herbie Jones, Nat ...

Fifty years ago, Reprise Records heralded its first release. The label was founded by singer/actor/entertainer Frank Sinatra, who had been with Capitol Records since ...

FIVE CDs and 81 tracks encompass the nine studio albums that Duke made for Reprise in the early 1960s. This was a period when jazz had to fight hard to survive and Ellington accordingly veered toward ...

Two of Ellington's most accomplished albums (Afro-Bossa and The Symphonic Ellington) just happen to be among his most overlooked works. Maybe it was the time of the season? The Duke signed to ...