Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald: 100 Songs For A Centennial

Blessed with an instantly recognizable voice full of youthful exuberance and a three-octave range, noted for its pristine and pure tone, the legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is, along with singer ...
The Baltimore Sun

First lady of song Ella Fitzgerald: Dead at 79, legendary jazz singer leaves rich legacy of recordings.

NO SINGER covered so wide a range of jazz and popular music as did Ella Fitzgerald, who died over the weekend at 79. She rose to fame during the swing era, excelled at scat, was present at the birth ...
Los Angeles Times

Ella Fitzgerald, with unerring sense of swing, conquered jazz

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday. The stylized doodle puts her in the spotlight on stage leading a quartet.
National Review

Ella Fitzgerald’s Century of Swing

An appreciation of the legendary jazz vocalist on her 100th birthday One hundred years ago today, Temperance and William Fitzgerald had a baby girl in Newport News, Va. They named her Ella Jane. The ...
The Washington Post

MetroStage’s ‘Ella’ has plenty of swing thanks to Freda Payne’s spot-on singing as Fitzgerald

If you remember the 1970 hit song "Band of Gold," then you know Freda Payne's voice. Payne is holding forth at Alexandria's MetroStage, not crooning Motown-style but swinging and scatting as Ella ...
BroadwayWorld

Ayo & Rochelle Rice to Star in FIRST LADY OF SONG: ELLA FITZGERALD at Signature Theatre

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Signature's Director of Cabarets, Mark G. Meadows said "when considering who could ...
Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald: 100 Songs For A Centennial

Disc 1: Sing Me A Swing Song (And Let Me Dance); (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have To Swing It; Dedicated To You; Big Boy Blue; I Got A Guy; I Found My Yellow Basket; McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To ...