A show two years in the making will capture the sound of one of the greatest improvisational singers and an American original when the Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra rounds out its first full ...
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 ...
Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage for Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Entering by chance, Fitzgerald — a ...
When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of those ...
The music festival focuses on the life of the "First Lady of Song," Newport News native and jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. A modern-day role model, Fitzgerald was born out of poverty in Newport News in ...
The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith Tick’s incisive, doggedly researched new biography of the 20th century’s preeminent songstress, suggests action and movement. This is no accident. As ...
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 ...
When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of those ...
There are few voices in jazz, and perhaps in all of music, that carry the warmth, depth and precision of Ella Fitzgerald's. Her effortless swing, her impeccable phrasing, her ability to transform even ...
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