ATLANTA (Reuters) - Acclaimed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, arguably the world's most prominent jazz musician, is set to premiere a major new project -- composing a Blues Symphony for orchestra. In keeping with a career that spans jazz, classical music, band leadership and high-profile advocacy for the arts, Marsalis' symphony is epic in scope -- to celebrate American history from Revolution to the ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Late jazz luminary Duke Ellington graced the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time in 41 years this week. "Best of Duke Ellington" opened at No. 186, marking the bandleader, composer and arranger's first entry since "Francis A. & Edward K.," with Frank Sinatra, reached No. 78 in 1968. The new collection is the fifth ...