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.
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The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald made singing feel like thinking ... The typical venues for Black jazz musicians, of course, posed their own ...
Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960 Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the celebrated television event The BP Super Show hosted by musician ... 14 memorable Jazz and Blues ...
In particular, the trend of using jazz in pop music was accelerated by Laufey, a singer and musician who draws on jazz giants ...
"I kind of digressed into more jazz and blues and really got into Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone," she told Music Week in 2016. "I'm always inspired by musicians who I felt were musicians before ...
“Ella Fitzgerald is an icon for jazz singers,” said Fuller ... Fuller had asked her husband to surprise her with dinner and live music for her birthday one year. Her only requirement ...
Atla and Matt DeChamplain at The Poli Club in the Palace Theatre, 100 East Main St., Waterbury on Friday, Oct. 11 at 7 and 9 ...
Kristie Yung, an up-and-coming singer/songwriter described as ‘Ella Fitzgerald meets Taylor ... happy and I knew at that moment that music was something that I had to do. In high school, I was ...
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known ...
The Bronx-born singer who made her debut on UK label Whirlwind talks about her new album Portrait - the first she has been ...
BY: LILLY GOODMAN, STAFF WRITER Album cover from albumoftheyear.org “Songs In The Key Of Life” isn’t just a staple in Stevie ...
The 67th annual Monterey Jazz Festival will welcome over 300 artists, almost 30,000 fans, and one new artistic director to ...