Wikimedia Commons Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald made history on May 4, 1959, as the first woman to win a Grammy Award. The ...

Beyoncé's 'Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour' pays homage to historic Black venues, performers who shaped American music.

The composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, Lalo Schifrin has died. He was 93. Schifrin’s ...

Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, Place des Arts. Joy has won five Grammys in the last three years (from ...

Arthur Hamilton, the Oscar-nominated songwriter best known for his smoky torch-song classic “Cry Me a River,” memorably recorded by Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Cocker and many others, has died.

Explore the catalog of “The First Lady of Song” with tracks chosen by Valerie June, Yaya Bey, Imani Perry and 13 more writers and musicians.

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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel Ngozi Nwadiogbu 112 Pages ISBN: 978-1970047295 Fantoons 2025 There are few voices in jazz, and perhaps in all of music, that carry the warmth, depth and ...

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 ...

She has since settled into a run of sold-out concerts all over the world and comparisons to jazz legends Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. June 2 at Jones Hall.

The jazz singer's 1960s concert career is amply documented on record, with live albums from Berlin, LA, Tokyo and the French Riviera. Now comes a newly released concert of Fitzgerald in Oakland ...

The relegation of non-songwriting singers that occurred in the 1970s affected the legacies of Roberta Flack and Linda Ronstadt more than any other great vocalists of the era. Like Flack, Ronstadt didn ...