Explore the catalog of “The First Lady of Song” with tracks chosen by Valerie June, Yaya Bey, Imani Perry and 13 more writers and musicians.

Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, ...

The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith Tick’s incisive, doggedly researched new biography of the 20th century’s preeminent songstress, suggests action and movement. This is no ...

“Who?” “Drake Brown. You mean you’ve never seen his picture in the papers?” Ella Fitzgerald tenses fearfully when she hears this. The most popular jazz singer in the world for 27 years ...

BECOMING ELLA FITZGERALD: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song, by Judith Tick Ella Fitzgerald was born in 1917 in Newport News, Va., but spent most of her childhood in a poor section of ...

The Grammy-winning 'Boo'd Up' singer was named after Ella Fitzgerald, appeared on The X Factor, and is signed to DJ Mustard's label English singer-songwriter Ella Mai has been a mainstay in the R ...

RECORDING OF “STELLA BY STARLIGHT”, PERFORMED BY ELLA FITZGERALD. Rob Hudson: what are the things that really tell the story of the hall? A block of wood, a pair of glasses. There's something about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, Place des Arts. Joy has won five Grammys in the last three years (from ...