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 ...

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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the superlatives which critics have lavished on her in recent performances.

There are few things music geeks love more than an unearthed, previously unknown recording, and that’s exactly what’s in store for fans of iconic jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. On Feb. 28, an album of a ...

If, like me, you never got a chance to see the great Ella Fitzgerald live, the next best opportunity awaits in Rochester at Meadow Brook Theatre. Conceived by Maurice Hines and written and directed by ...

Before it became commonplace for today’s entertainers to label themselves with just one appellation — a la Madonna, Cher, Adele — there was a singer of such extraordinary talent, that even though she ...