Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Ella was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, intonation, impeccable diction, ...

Patrice Williamson will credit her jazz career to icons of the genre like Ella Fitzgerald. But she says network news anchor Connie Chung had something to do with it too. Growing up in Memphis in the ...

Fitzgerald, like many jazz legends, came from humble beginnings. She was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her unmarried parents, Temperance “Tempie” Henry and William Fitzgerald, ...

Ella Fitzgerald has been hailed as “The First Lady of Song” — she won 13 Grammy awards and sold more than 40 million albums. She was a queen of jazz, although her music transcended genres and ...

Jazz warms my soul. It’s the sound of horns, mingled with brushed snares and sparse keys that strike a chord with me, bring me to an everlasting ease. I appreciate the way the same standard can be ...