Duke Ellington

Jazz Portraits

Arts, Culture & Media

Jazz music has a long tradition of loving and sly portraits. Music historian and Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddens takes us through some of them.

The World

When Duke Ellington Played Kabul

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When Duke Ellington Played Kabul

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‘Letter from America’ Examines the United States Through a British Lens

Music Heard on Air for December 20, 2011

Music Heard on Air
The World

Global Hit

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Adeline Sire profiles a Dutch all-reed quintet which plays music from the early Renaissance to jazz.