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NIU Jazz Orchestra director Reginald Thomas speaks about how Ronald Carter would end performances and demonstrates the call and response used by Carter with the audience. The NIU Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble worked to memorialize Ronald Carter and his impact throughout the concert. (Sam Dion | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: NIU jazz honors Ronald Carter in concert

By Sam Dion, Photojournalist | March 7, 2024

The Duke’s bittersweet final night

By Alex Fiore | May 2, 2012

Sometimes he coughed up blood. Sometimes his knees ached and his back strained when sitting down. When Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington took the stage inside NIU’s University Center on March 20, 1974, the cancer that destroyed his lungs had turned...

Courtesy of the Sycamore Music Boosters

Sycamore father and son to headline music education fundraiser

By Lindsey Diehl | February 7, 2012

A New York City jazz musician is traveling back home to perform with his father at a local music fundraiser.Juliard School student Bryan Carter will be taking the stage with his father, music professor Ronald Carter, at the Sycamore Music Boosters event,...

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