Performance

Ellington on the Radio

1 upcoming performance in New York

“Ellington on the Radio” at Dizzy’s Club frames Duke Ellington’s music through the broadcast culture that once carried it into New York City living rooms and late-night diners. The program sits in the jazz lineage now institutionalized at Jazz at Lincoln Center, with featured sets by the Future of Jazz Orchestra and Ted Nash’s Miles Davis Centennial Celebration, alongside tributes to Miles Davis and blues-rooted repertoire. It treats radio not as nostalgia but as an organizing idea for how jazz became public life. The result is a useful reminder that repertoire is also a record of media, labor, and listening habits.