This article originally appeared on The Conversation. "The First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on Tuesday, April 25: institutions from the Library of Congress to the Grammy ...

The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith Tick’s incisive, doggedly researched new biography of the 20th century’s preeminent songstress, suggests action and movement. This is no accident. As ...

YELLOW BASKET. I SEND A LETTER TO MY MOMMY. ON THE WAY I DROPPED IT. SHE’S KNOWN AS THE QUEEN OF JAZZ AND THE FIRST LADY OF SONG. ELLA FITZGERALD RECORDED 200 ALBUMS AND 2000 SONGS SHAPING AMERICAN ...

The City of Newport News is honoring jazz legend and Newport News native Ella Fitzgerald this spring with a celebration of her legacy and music. The concert series, presented by Hampton Roads Jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tick (Ruth Crawford Seeger), a professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University, delivers a magisterial biography of singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), who “fearlessly explored ...

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 1968 file photo, American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald swings her necklace as she arrives at the Carlton Theatre in London, England. The National Portrait Gallery is putting up ...

“IT’S NICE work if you can get it,” Ella Fitzgerald crooned in 1983, “and you can get it if you only try.” The American jazz singer was no stranger to the idea of diligence. Her first major public ...

There’s a Gordon Parks photo called “Music-That Lordly Power” that exemplifies what visitors can expect when they visit the latest exhibition at the Gantt Center, “Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs ...

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 ...