News about Duke Ellington

On Wednesday, Strictly Come Dancing actor David Copperkett appeared rather downcast when he was seen out and about in South West London. On Saturday, the Casualty actor, 50, was forced to leave the competition due to a strained rib injury during rehearsal. After receiving his poor Blackpool ratings, the actor appeared tense as he attempted to conceal his appearance under his baseball cap amid allegations of a 'flaming squabble' with his wife Lucy Liemann.

After receiving a poor score for his role in Blackpool, Strictly Come Dancing star Nigel Harman was seen storming off the dancefloor. With a score of 31 points out of 40, the retired EastEnders actor and his professional dance partner Katya Jones' routine to Duke Ellington's It Doesn't Mean A Thing placed them second from second place on the judges' leaderboard. Nigel is seen swiftly exiting the dancefloor in a video shared on social media, just seconds after the BBC cameras stopped shooting.

According to Kate Wickers, the New York City neighborhood has 'travelled a long way' over the past century. 'Explore Harlem by day, and you'll have a tale on every street corner,' she says. Kate gives advice on the best things to do and see in Harlem, from dining at Sylvia's, the oldest of Harlem's soul food restaurants, to embarking on Harlem Heritage Tours to start excursions.

On Sunday evening, the actors appeared backstage at King Charles' Coronation Concert in Windsor. Lucy Illingworth, 13, the presenter of Channel 4's The Piano, joined Mother Candice on the red carpet ahead of her appearance. The blind musician performed well in a vibrant chiffon frock just months after melting the nation's heart in the competition to find the country's best amateur pianist.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend this year seems to be on track to return to the Obama-era glory of celebrities pouring into Washington and attending overlapping parties.

Any musician will have a standing ovation at a packed Royal Festival Hall. And that's just what happened when Lucy, blind and autistic, 13, won The Piano last night, the Channel 4 competition to find the UK's best amateur pianist. With her flawless interpretation of Debussy's Arabesque, the teen from West Yorkshire, who was born with cancerous tumors in her eyes and is largely nonverbal, stunned audiences and many of them fell in tears.

If it hasn't got that swing, it doesn't mean anything, but jazz players haven't been able to articulate what'swing' is. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany claim to have found out, after their study found that the rhythm is the result of micro-delays in musical timing. Swing is usually added to a piece of music when quavers - notes that are an eighth of the duration of a whole note - are played with different lengths. To see if timing changes affected their perception of the swing, the researchers performed manipulative pieces of music to jazz musicians to see if shifts in timing changed their interpretation of it. When the notes on beat one and three were postponed by 30 milliseconds, the musicians were 7.48 times more likely to believe the music was having more swing. However, the microtiming inconsistency was so small that they were imperceptible to professional jazz players, who told them not to use them unconsciously.

Salman Rushdie was planning to deliver a lecture on City Asylum, a Pittsburgh-based writers under threat of persecution as part of the Chautauqua Institution's continuing lecture series prior to being stabbed on stage. Rushdie was keen to meet with Henry Reese, co-founder and president of City of Asylum. Rushdie had delivered a address in 1997 that prompted Reese to found City of Asylum prior to his speaking engagement at the university, according to the organization.