About the Ellington Jazz Series

For fifty years, the Duke Ellington Fellowship has brought the giants of jazz to Yale’s concert halls and to the city’s public schools. In 1972, Yale’s president Kingman Brewster presented the first Ellington medals to thirty jazz greats, including the Duke himself. That year marked the beginning of a series of extraordinary jazz concerts by Eubie Blake, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, to name just a few.

The Ellington Series continues to present concerts and residencies by jazz legends as well as the new generation of artists.

2022-2023 Ellington Jazz Series

mar 3 Jane Bunnett and Maqueque

7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall apr 2 Epitaph: 100 Years of Mingus

2 p.m. | Woolsey Hall all concerts: Tickets start at $23, Students start at $10