Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella, however, took more time to warm up to the blond bombshell. “Initially, she only knew what she had seen on film or read in ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The City of Newport News is honoring jazz legend and Newport News native Ella Fitzgerald this spring with a celebration of her legacy and music. The concert series, presented by ...

In early 1933, a 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald spent many a day dancing for dimes and nickels on the sidewalks of Yonkers, N.Y. At least she did until a truant officer caught her and hauled her to ...

12:43 p.m. July 11, 2025This article incorrectly identifies Judith Tick as a professor at Northwestern University. She works at Northeastern University. Her reign began as a swing singer with the ...

Happy Holidays! It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got a lot of holiday cheer to share with new music from April Varner, Wycliffe Gordon, Olivia Van Goor,Christian ...

September 3, 2019 • Listen to a selection of marvelous music from the First Lady of Song, plus music by artists who have felt her influence. October 2, 2019 • Just try to keep up with Charenée Wade as ...

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On March 25, 1962, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald performed in front of a packed audience at the cavernous Berlin Sportpalast arena. She was returning to the city as a hero: Two years earlier, she’d ...

If asked “Who played an important role in the musical career of Ella Fitzgerald?" you might respond with names like Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, and Dizzy Gillespie. The name Marilyn ...

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song. By Judith Tick. W.W. Norton & Company; 592 pages; $40 and £30 But, as a new biography makes clear, for a long time this ...

In a January 1955 article titled “New Life for U.S. Jazz,” LIFE magazine noted that the genre’s popularity was growing faster than almost any other form of music (the Elvis-fueled rock and roll ...

The singer’s concert recordings have always had a power that her studio outings could only imply. “Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes,” a newly unearthed 1962 performance, magnifies her legacy. By Giovanni ...