Internationally acclaimed singer and Baltimore community activist Navasha Daya will celebrate her birthday in grand fashion this year by honoring two of the greatest musicians of the 20th century: ...

The historic Brooklyn Paramount theater — which hosted legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra before becoming a college basketball court — reopened as a music hall on Wednesday ...

There are few things music geeks love more than an unearthed, previously unknown recording, and that’s exactly what’s in store for fans of iconic jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. On Feb. 28, an album of a ...

Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...

America's Jazz Heritage: A Partnership of the The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution provided the funding to produce many of the video master and reference copies.

Sue Matthews, vocalist, and Robert Redd, pianist, will present a jazz concert Sunday, Jan. 28, at 3 p.m. at The Church of the Holy Trinity, located at 502 S. Morris Street in Oxford. You must be ...

A live album from the late Ella Fitzgerald has been unearthed — and it will soon be released. The Moment Of Truth: Ella At The Coliseumis scheduled to release on February 28 via Verve Records.

Freda Payne’s name is forever associated with her 1970 classic hit song, ”Band of Gold.” But Payne says she was “bred as a jazz singer” and that’s why playing jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald felt natural to ...