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.

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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald's vocal style was as incredible and diverse as the material that she sang. She started out a swing singer, moved to bebop, sang perfect scat, was an extraordinary jazz vocalist and had ...

Her voice is instantly recognizable. Her youthful exuberance, pure sound and positive energy just make you feel good. Her incredible technical abilities were self-evident, but when she sang, she ...

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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 ...

A new Berlin-based radio station named after jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald is aiming to revive the genres fortunes. As the ...

Gold-record recording artist Freda Payne applies her multi-octave voice to her portrayal of Ella Fitzgerald in Delaware Theatre Company's latest production. Freda Payne is "mesmerizing" as Ella ...

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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized voices in jazz history. As a teen, her dream was to be a dancer, but fate had different plans for her. At age 16, she was planning to perform a dance at ...

Her incredible technical abilities were self-evident, but in front of a microphone, she radiated pure joy. The Ella Fitzgerald Centennial: Our 'First Lady Of Song' Her voice is instantly recognizable.