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, ...

The life and legacy of the late Mary Lou Williams will be the center of attention at Duke this weekend, and the music will be amazing. In two concerts, the noted jazz pianist and composer will be ...

To cap off the Saturday programming of Duke’s Family Weekend, the Music Department showcased 11 pieces of music — spanning from combination chorale and chamber orchestra performances to string ...

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 ...

Just last year, Duke Deuce‘s Memphis Massacre cut “Yeh” hit a million YouTube views in just about 30 days with the encouragement of Cardi B, who called on her more than 60 million Instagram followers ...

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 ...

While some of our greatest writers and thinkers were busy debating about whether or not good art can come out of the pandemic, a Duke librarian was quietly creating a Kraftwerk-adjacent library ...

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.