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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

For jazz singers Joyce Grant and Kellie Fuller, all roads lead back to Ella Fitzgerald. It comes as no surprise, then, that a long-awaited collaboration between the two songstresses is a tribute to ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today! Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Known as the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald popularised "scat singing" where she used her voice to sound like a ...

Freda Payne’s name is forever associated with her 1970 classic hit song, ”Band of Gold.” But Payne says she was “bred as a jazz singer” and that’s why playing jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald felt natural to ...

From red lipstick to coiffed updos, see how Ella Fitzgerald's beauty has evolved over the years in honor of her heavenly ...