Discover Ella Fitzgerald’s “Summertime” lyrics, artist background, similar songs, and related jazz artists. Read more now!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Affectionately dubbed as "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald’s amazing voice thrilled music fans for decades during her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ella Fitzgerald’s latest posthumous album, The Moment of Truth: ...

But let’s be fair: Fitzgerald didn’t write “Mack the Knife,” making her mistake more understandable. Bobby Darrin and Louis Armstrong first sang the song, according to The Kids Should See This. Still, ...

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 ...

A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Billie Holiday began recording at 18, in a 1933 session with Benny Goodman and was musically active until her death at 44 in 1959. Ella Fitzgerald also began recording at 18 (in 1935 as the singer ...

The Songbook series would go on to be considered Fitzgerald's most notable work. Following her death in 1996 the New York ...

The jazz singer's 1960s concert career is amply documented on record, with live albums from Berlin, LA, Tokyo and the French Riviera. Now comes a newly released concert of Fitzgerald in Oakland, Calif ...