Berlin - once a focal point of unleashed lifestyles and musical freedom and frenzy - had a dishonourable distinction of not having its own jazz radio station until recently. This is now changed with ...

Vail Jazz presents Ella and Louis Together Again featuring Carmen Bradford and Byron Stripling, joined by pianist Eric Gunnison, bassist Ken Walker, guitarist Steve Kovalcheck and drummer Dru Heller.

This article was first published in June 2004. Considered by many to be the 20th century's greatest female singer of jazz and American popular song, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) is one of the few ...

When the concert to celebrate the centennial of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald is billed in part as 100 Years, 1,000 Memories, it feels right to start this story with one of those ...

Ella at 100! The First Lady of Song’s rich musical legacy is still alive and well in Europe, Canada and across the USA, including Michigan. Today kicks off the official centennial celebration of ...

Future historians will remember 2017 as the year of the centennial. Fitzgerald’s legacy is vast and affects many different areas of music, and touches on questions that are still being asked: What is ...

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 ...

Where would we be without Ella? Without that voice, that propulsive sense of swing, that fleet technique and that seemingly inexhaustible well of improvisational creativity? Ella Fitzgerald, who died ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. "The First Lady ...