In this photo, American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, on Feb. 26, 1963. Getty Images / Ronald Dumont On Wednesday April 25, famous American jazz singer Ella ...

Ella Fitzgerald, dubbed as queen of jazz, is photographerd during a visit to London, Feb. 23, 1958. Getty Images/John Downing Thursday, June 15, marks famous American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald’s ...

Ella Fitzgerald is a woman of many firsts to her credit. As the first African-American to win GRAMMY for Best Jazz Performance and Best Vocal Performance in 1958 - she also became the first woman to ...

They don't make quotes much better than the one that popped up in this morning's NPR piece on Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella Fitzgerald often said, "I'm not going to be left behind. If you don't learn new songs, you're lost." The year was 1967 and she was 51 years old. She said more in 1968: "I want to stay with it.

Did you know that Ella Fitzgerald had deep ties to the Hudson Valley? Fitzgerald was born in Virginia but moved to Yonkers by the age of five. Although famously silent about her past and the ...

Drummer Chick Webb's 1930s orchestra terrorized competitors in band battles and sent dancers into orbit at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. They could be similarly explosive on record, but only rarely. Early ...