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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The setting is less grand than suggested by the title of a new Ella Fitzgerald album ... Jazz giant Fitzgerald’s presence elevated any event, however, and that was the case on June 30 ...
The Opera House has hosted many legendary names for the Cork Jazz Festival, but none bigger than Ella Fitzgerald. The First Lady Of Song performed two shows in one evening for the 1980 event.
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.