It’s impossible to rank the records in Ella Fitzgerald’s songbook series, but the 1958 Irving Berlin collection is surely essential in any music library. This Verve reissue packages the two CDs ...

Affectionately dubbed as "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald’s amazing voice thrilled music fans for decades during her impeccable live performances. Even following her death in 1996 at age 79, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This concert is not just an afternoon or evening of Fitzgerald’s songs or ...

Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing — a form of spontaneous musical invention — was as dazzling as her simplest melodic statements. "[These were] wonderful singers who did wonderful things," Taylor says.

Ella Fitzgerald's musical genius and influence is still being felt today. Latinx musicians Mabiland and Daymé Arocena explain how Fitzgerald... How Ella Fitzgerald Is Influencing A New Generation Of ...

On her 100th birthday, Tony Bennett, Cécile McLorin Salvant and others pay tribute to the woman whose voice and vivacity redefined the Great... Remembering Ella Fitzgerald, Who Made Great Songs ...

Every time a new concert by Ella Fitzgerald is released, my first thought is somewhat cynical. I was able to see the First Lady of Song only once live in performance, at the very end of her career, ...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but mimicking a legend can be the highway to performance hell. As a result, Alexis J Roston’s elevating approach, in her mouthful of a cabaret show: ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When Ella Fitzgerald was young, no one would have guessed she’d grow up to ...

In his 859-page monograph The Swing Era (1989), composer and historian Gunther Schuller skipped past Ella Fitzgerald. In 2011, when Judith Tick asked him about the omission, he responded that "there ...

Tammi Brown is a busy lady. For a long time, the singer has been an important part of our local music community and with her busy schedule, she doesn’t perform locally as often as she did in the past.

Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing — a form of spontaneous musical invention — was as dazzling as her simplest melodic statements. She started as a band singer, then spent the next two decades as a ...