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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This segment originally broadcast on March 17, 2023. How did Ella Fitzgerald become the legend she was? That’s the question author Judith Tick asks and answers in her new biography on ...

A show two years in the making will capture the sound of one of the greatest improvisational singers and an American original when the Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra rounds out its first full ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While many jazz purists would argue that the true nature of the genre is a sprawling, 10-minute instrumental full of spontaneity and ever-changing melodies, many listeners tend to find their footing ...