Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

COMING UP…We’ve done two of these, and you loved them and asked for more. The great IMPROV Moments in music, and the 3rd time might be the best. These are some of ...

Richard Linklater's latest collaboration with Ethan Hawke features the actor as Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart at the end of ...

The lyricist and onetime songwriting partner to Richard Rodgers hasn’t always gotten his due for his contributions to the ...

With a voice described as “earthy” and “youthful”, still familiar to many today, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald has been described as “worth hearing in every phase of her career.” In 2023, “Rolling Stone ...

Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, was a legendary jazz singer celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and emotive delivery. Fitzgerald’s unique ability to master both scat singing ...

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 ...

Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join together ...

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 ...