Concord Music Group will release the two-CD Sarah Vaughan set Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection on August 20, 2013. Featuring six previously unreleased tracks and new liner ...

This summer, Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre celebrates 100 years since legendary jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington moved to New York City to perform in Broadway nightclubs with Sophisticated ...

Almost 40 years after its Broadway premiere, “Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies” is considered a classic thanks to the music that drives the production, songs like “Satin Doll,” “It Don’t Mean a ...

. The majority of the cuts on this two-disc set were first released under the same title in 1977, a decade after the tenor and soprano sax titan’s untimely death at age 40. The first seven tunes come ...