Ray Nance recorded Body and Soul, his first album as a leader, in May 1969, almost thirty years after he took over Cootie Williams' trumpet chair in the Duke Ellington orchestra, but only about two ...

Billy Ray “Buddy” Nance, 91, passed away October 21, 2022, at Whitestone in Greensboro, NC. A service will take place Wednesday, October 26th, at 1pm at the WhiteStone Chapel in Greensboro. Buddy was ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: This Saturday marks Ethel ray Nance Day in Duluth. Ethel was a Duluth-born civil rights activist, and this Saturday, she would have been 125 ...

DULUTH — City Council President Janet Kennedy read a mayoral proclamation Thursday morning declaring April 13 as Ethel Ray Nance Day in honor of a pioneering figure who broke through many barriers, ...

Henry Banks, community activist, is pushing to get more recognition out there for Ethel Ray Nance. She was born in Duluth, on April 13, 1899, and grew up in the Hillside. After graduating from Central ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, ...

Ethel Ray Nance’s story is being told, and by her granddaughter, Karen. It’s chronicled in a new book called “Ethel Ray: Living in the White, Gray and Black.” Ethel Ray was the first African ...

The National D-Day Memorial is set to receive its final visit from the “Bedford Boys” Wednesday, nearly 65 years after the storied group stormed Omaha Beach. Just prior to an 11 a.m. graveside service ...