We often wonder what it’s like for artists slugging it out on the tribute circuit, dragging out their best versions of songs by dead guys (or guys we wish were dead like, say, Steve Perry). Luckily ...

Duke Ellington’s son has written a memoir of “life with father.” Mercer Ellington talked into a tape machine, and Stanley Dance, the indefatigable biographer and general Boswell of jazz, transcribed ...

Marian McPartland plays a piece by Mercer Ellington followed by an interview with host Beryl Dakers. In this "Art's the Thing!" special, Marian McPartland plays Mercer Ellington's "Things Ain't What ...

ACT ONE. Rollin' [that is, Rolling] -- Washington -- Categories -- Music -- Dramatis felidae : Mercer Ellington ; Ruth Dorothea Ellington ; Sidney Bechet ; Fletcher Henderson ; Otto Hardwick ; Sonny ...