Ella Fitzgerald News & Updates

Remembering Ella Fitzgerald: The 'First Lady of Jazz' who won 13 Grammys and changed music

Her voice is truly iconic....

Jun 15, 2026 • Parade on MSN

Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel

There are few voices in jazz, and perhaps in all of music, that carry the warmth, depth and precisio...

Jun 01, 2025 • Jazz

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

In his 859-page monograph The Swing Era (1989), composer and historian Gunther Schuller skipped past...

Apr 18, 2024 • Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald Live at Montreux 1969 Set to Drop in January

On January 20, Mercury Studios will release the work on CD and LP. Originally released on DVD in 200...

Nov 03, 2022 • American Songwriter

Ella Fitzgerald never stopped moving. That's how the jazz singer became an icon

The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,” Judith Tick’s incisive, doggedly researched new biogr...

Dec 01, 2023 • Yahoo

Yonkers renames school for incomparable musician Ella Fitzgerald, who walked the halls more than 90 years ago

YONKERS, N.Y. -- The city of Yonkers is honoring the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most b...

Sep 30, 2022 • CBS News

How Ella Fitzgerald inspires today's artists (Rebroadcast)

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Aug 13, 2024 • LAist

Ella Fitzgerald changed what a music star could be

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song. By Judith Tick. W.W. Norton...

Feb 22, 2024 • The Economist

Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was a gifted American jazz artist. She had a warm and lovely voice, wi...

May 10, 2024 • insider.si.edu

Ella Fitzgerald’s Glasses

RECORDING OF “STELLA BY STARLIGHT”, PERFORMED BY ELLA FITZGERALD. Rob Hudson: what are the thing...

Jun 12, 2024 • WQXR

Ella Fitzgerald celebration in Newport News

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – T...

Apr 03, 2026 • Yahoo

Ella Fitzgerald Scores A New Posthumous Top 10 Smash

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, wi...

Mar 13, 2025 • Forbes

‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald’ Review: The Queen of Jazz

In early 1933, a 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald spent many a day dancing for dimes and nickels on the s...

Dec 22, 2023 • Wall Street Journal

Rare Ella Fitzgerald Concert Recording Due for Release Next Month

There are few things music geeks love more than an unearthed, previously unknown recording, and that...

Jan 17, 2025 • Variety

Inside Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe’s Unlikely Friendship, Including Album Project

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella, however, took more time ...

Mar 07, 2024 • Yahoo

D.C. Legend Ella Fitzgerald Celebrates Five Decades of Drag

Donnell Robinson, Ella’s alter ego, looks back at the perfection, the clubs, and the drag children...

Jun 11, 2026 • Washington City Paper

Unreleased Ella Fitzgerald Live Album 'Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook' Sets Release

On August 16, 1958, just a few months after Ella Fitzgerald recorded her now-classic album, Ella Fit...

May 12, 2022 • BroadwayWorld

Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (2003) - Where to Watch

Planning a movie night with 'Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa' on any device? Here’s ...

Feb 09, 2024 • Moviefone

Ella Fitzgerald's Cover of 'Can't Buy Me Love' Reached No. 34 in the UK Charts

Can’t Buy Me Love” was originally released by The Beatles in 1964. A popular cover of the song w...

May 23, 2026 • Yahoo News UK

How Ella Fitzgerald inspires today's artists

Nearly thirty years after the influential jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald’s death, her legacy and infl...

Jun 17, 2024 • WLRN

A jazzy new biography unfurls Ella Fitzgerald’s life and career

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Feb 15, 2024 • Christian Science Monitor

‘Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things’ Is A Thorough Overview Of The Queen Of Jazz

Like Charlie Parker on the saxophone or Jimi Hendrix on the guitar, Ella Fitzgerald redefined what c...

Oct 11, 2021 • Decider

Honoring Ella Fitzgerald: 'Ella Festival' returns to Newport News

The music festival focuses on the life of the "First Lady of Song," Newport News native and jazz leg...

Apr 10, 2023 • WVEC

Guest Editor: Ella Fitzgerald touched my heart

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Jun 17, 2021 • Afro