Flashback to the early ’40s: A voluptuous Ella Fitzgerald strolls up to the mike and lays down a scat track in three octaves, accompanied by the legendary Dizzy Gillespie on horn. If the power pair ...

Hailed as the “First Lady of Song,” Fitzgerald topped DownBeat magazine’s annual readers’ poll as the best female vocalist for seventeen consecutive years (1953–70). She was just a teenager when her ...

This article was corrected on July. 8, 2002. Ray Brown, the jazz bassist who redefined the way the instrument is played in bebop and swing while backing Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson and Ella ...

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All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today! Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a ...