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

Last Sunday, Kevin Spacey was to be found on stage in a nightclub in Cyprus, singing That’s Life and Bridge over Troubled ...

The nomination allows Riddle to set a new record for the longest span of Grammy nominations. By Paul Grein Nelson Riddle was one of the finest arrangers in music history. He received Grammy ...

American songstress Ella Fitzgerald, who sang for several U.S. presidents, was known to occasionally take a breather at the iconic Le Provençal hotel in Cap d’Antibes, and the fourth-floor suite where ...

Ella Fitzgerald is one of the most iconic and celebrated jazz vocalists of all time, but she was known to dabble in rock ‘n’ roll every now and then, too. As rock music became increasingly popular in ...

Verve Label Group and UMe, the global catalog division of Universal Music Group, are proud to announce Verve Vault, a new audiophile vinyl reissue series highlighting jazz albums as well as overlooked ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third and final installment of our on-site look at Viking Mississippi’s “America’s Heartland” cruise. Our first story outlined the pre-cruise stay, St. Louis, Alton, IL, and ...

Music Feeds’ Love Letter to a Record series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here, New York ...

One of the few advantages of growing old is that you get a better sense of what you do and don't like (although a certain grumpiness sets in that leads to a lot less of the former and a lot more of ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ella Fitzgerald, known as "The First Lady of Song," was a revolutionary American jazz singer who travelled extensively and performed concerts in different parts of America. Her iconic style, crystal ...