A live album from the late Ella Fitzgerald has been unearthed — and it will soon be released. The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseumis scheduled to release on February 28 via Verve Records.

There are few things music geeks love more than an unearthed, previously unknown recording, and that’s exactly what’s in store for fans of iconic jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. On Feb. 28, an album of a ...

Entering by chance, Fitzgerald — a native of Newport News, Virginia — meant to dance but switched to singing “The Object of ...

THR review: Leslie Woodhead's doc 'Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things' traces the life and half-century career of the jazz luminary. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic When a ...

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 ...

In 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement, Ella Fitzgerald sat down for an interview with her friend Fred Robbins, a popular New York radio host. Fitzgerald, a legendary Black jazz singer, ...

Freda Payne, still known for her soulful 1970 megahit "Band of Gold," didn't start out as a R&B singer. "I wanted to have a reputation of being accepted as a jazz singer," says the vocalist, on the ...