The collaboration of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart yielded some of the most popular and enduring American songs of the early 20th century. "The Lady Is a Tramp," "My Romance," ...
Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. That Ella Fitzgerald — Ella! — would pull back the stage curtain ever so discreetly before her concerts, eyeball the audience and say to her band, "I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ella Fitzgerald, often referred to as the “Queen of Jazz,” was a powerhouse vocalist whose influence on the ...
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 ...