but says she grew up with little music around her and only found her passion when after discovering a stack of Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James vinyl in a junk shop. "There was no musical heritage ...

I am in love. There is so much more to say about Ella Fitzgerald. For my part, I only will add that I twice was fortunate enough to see her live — once at Radio City Music Hall and once at the ...

The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith ... Tick, a professor emerita of music history at Northwestern University, proves an ideal guide to Fitzgerald’s perpetual progress.

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was a gifted American jazz artist. She had a warm and lovely voice, with notable rhythmic sense, versatility, and intonation, as well as exceptional talent at scat singing.

Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 ...

December 22, 2020 • Every year, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton go on a musical holiday adventure. This year, they take a rocket ride to outer space and are joined by a ...

How many Broadway shows has Ella Fitzgerald been in? Ella Fitzgerald has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Ella Fitzgerald been in? Ella Fitzgerald has not appeared in ...

For jazz singers Joyce Grant and Kellie Fuller, all roads lead back to Ella Fitzgerald. It comes as no surprise, then, that a long-awaited collaboration between the two songstresses is a tribute ...

Emerging Irish artist Marr Not Meeger aka Rowan Meagher has released her new song, Yellow Car, which is taken from her debut ...

Singers with perfect pitch may also be able to sing a given note on cue, without having heard it. Famous musicians including Ella Fitzgerald and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch, which has ...

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song If Ella was the supreme portrayer ... a jam session with her swing era colleagues. She is both an emotionally charged ...