Swampscott’s community jazz orchestra, the Big Blue Band, will perform Duke Ellington’s “The Nutcracker Suite” on Dec. 14 at the Swampscott Auditorium. The event will begin at 2 p.m. The Blue Big Band ...

As Duke celebrates its centennial — and with Grammy-award winning musician Ed Sheeran recently gracing Wallace Wade Stadium — it seems only right to look back at some of the other artists Duke has ...

For a score of years, while “kings” of jazz and swing have succeeded each other with Balkan rapidity, a “Duke” has exhibited most of the real majesty from beside the throne. So last week the U.S.