They named her Ella Jane. The proud parents could ... At about age 73, she was visibly frail in the early 1990s. But even that late in her life, she had the voice of that teenage girl who stepped ...

The scope of this particular disparagement emerges fully in Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, a recent biography by the musicologist ...

Ella Fitzgerald could sing anything ... "Despite whatever difficulties she had in her life, you could hear the joy," Reddick says. Fitzgerald's joy rang out through what Smithsonian Curator ...