Inspired by Charles Dickens’ short story, “The Child’s Story,” about one man’s journey through his own life from childhood ...

For the director Richard Linklater, the tone of his new film Blue Moon, about the lyricist Lorenz Hart, was obvious from the jump. "It's like, well, perhaps a Rodgers and Hart song," he says in a ...

American songstress Ella Fitzgerald, who sang for several U.S. presidents, was known to occasionally take a breather at the iconic Le Provençal hotel in Cap d’Antibes, and the fourth-floor suite where ...

Ella Fitzgerald is one of the most iconic and celebrated jazz vocalists of all time, but she was known to dabble in rock ‘n’ roll every now and then, too. As rock music became increasingly popular in ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The classic songs "Lady Be Good," "Embraceable You," "'S Wonderful," "Love Is Here To Stay," "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off," "Fascinating Rhythm," "I Got Rhythm," ...

And Ella Fitzgerald's "Gershwin Song Book" really helped give him that. So can you talk a little bit about the importance of both of those and, you know, the "Lady, Be Good" musical and the Ella ...