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For those who are looking for a place to stay during the celebration, Newport News Marriott at City Center is also offering ...
Appropriately enough, the jazz world has spent recent weeks marking the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald with concerts, broadcasts, exhibits, and other celebrations. As much as she is revered today ...
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was a gifted American jazz artist. She had a warm and lovely voice, with notable rhythmic sense, versatility, and intonation, as well as exceptional talent at scat singing.
The “First Lady of Song,” backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio, delivers a set that combines contemporary tracks such as "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Hey Jude" with classics like "I Won’t Dance ...
Now comes a newly released concert of Fitzgerald in Oakland, Calif. Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald's concert career in the 1960s is amply documented on record, with live albums from Berlin, Rome, Los ...
Ella Fitzgerald made singing feel like thinking. Her interpretations of the Great American Songbook—taken as a whole, still its most ambitious rendering to date—are full of harmonic risk and ...
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was a gifted American jazz artist. She had a warm and lovely voice, with notable rhythmic sense, versatility, and intonation, as well as exceptional talent at scat singing.