The event celebrated 50 years of ‘glorious human activity — the learning, the expression, the joy, the community’ Alec Damian Gallimore, the esteemed aerospace engineer and Duke University provost, ...

In December 2010, the jazz pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill and Duke University arts administrator Eric Oberstein went home together. They both lived in New York, but they arrived in the Cuban ...

Somewhere on the Duke University campus, the last notes from a jazz luminary lay hiding in long-forgotten storage — a half-finished finale scratched out in pencil by the same hand that made Benny ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This past weekend (May 9 – 11), Jazz at Lincoln Center put the spotlight on the ...

Composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington rates as one of the most original and important figures in 20th century American music. He came of age at the dawning of jazz in the 1920s and along ...