Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing — a form of spontaneous musical invention — was as dazzling as her simplest melodic statements. She started as a band singer, then spent the next two decades as a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ella Fitzgerald, often referred to as the “Queen of Jazz,” was a powerhouse vocalist whose influence on the ...

She spent her early years in New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum, worked as a lookout in a bordello and helped a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner. And became one of the greatest jazz singers the world has ...

Ella Fitzgerald, the subject of Jackie Taylor’s latest biographical musical for the Black Ensemble Theatre, never got any formal vocal training. But as her legions of fans well recall, they didn’t ...