Highlights
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey, both world-renowned entertainers, were born in Newport News, Virginia in 1918. Links to her discography, lyrics and biography are included on this page.
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey, both world-renowned entertainers, were born in Newport News, Virginia in 1918. Links to her discography, lyrics and biography are included on this page.
Displaying items 1-12 of 95
» View newsday.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
•
Next >
-
Holiday events
To submit listings, go to metromix.com/listings. Clearbrook's Wonderland of Lights: Hundreds of thousands of lights comprise holiday scenes in the fourth annual festive drive-through display. Highlights include an Elf Toy Factory and an attraction...Tags: Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Frank Sinatra, Morton Arboretum, Bing Crosby
-
THE BUZZ
NEW "DREAMGIRLS" AT THE APOLLO. A new national tour of "Dreamgirls" will kick off a year from now at Harlem's Apollo Theater, where the opening scene of the musical takes place, The Associated Press reports. The revival, directed and choreographed by...Tags: Music Theater, Billie Holiday, Theater, James Brown
-
Labelle reunites after 32 years with new CD
The Philadelphia InquirerBefore there was Labelle - the '70s glam/R&B trio of Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, who have just reunited with "Back to Now," their first album in 32 years - there was Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles. From their feathered headdresses atop...Tags: Keith Richards, Sirius Satellite Radio Incorporated, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Lil' Kim
-
Outsourcing
5 Delegate duties; increase joy . >>Hire a decorator Teresa Frith and Ann Van Damme, owners of A World Class Concierge Service, Inc., typically earn their money running errands for busy people—everything from dry-cleaning pickup to pet-sitting....Tags: Personal Service, Dancing, Frank Sinatra, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Sammy Cahn
-
Get a consultant
Lift your voices Music critic I John von Rhein Nothing stirs me from my Scrooge-like state more quickly than listening to a hearty round of Christmas carols sung by a good choir. You can do just that every Friday evening throughout the holiday season...Tags: Dancing, Frank Sinatra, Galileo Galilei, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Mahalia Jackson
-
Ben Crandell's Timeout: Where Anthony Bourdain could be traveling
Role models are hard to come by these days. While ethnically diverse kids such as my own now have one in Washington to look up to for quite some time, what about us unexceptional walking-around guys who have outgrown Tom Seaver and Clyde Frazier, and...Tags: Tom Seaver, Florida, Anthony Bourdain, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Fort Lauderdale
-
LI Music Hall of Fame recognizes local talent
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIt's probably no surprise that Chuck D refused to be bullied when he was a fledgling rapper and a student at Adelphi University. "People used to come from the Bronx and from Brooklyn with a chip on their shoulders, thinking that just because rap...Tags: Bronx (New York City), Metal and Mineral, Radio, Barbra Streisand, Theater
-
Van Morrison discusses 'Astral Weeks,' which he'll perform at the Hollywood Bowl
If necessity is the mother of invention, it might follow that desperation is the father of inspiration. That was certainly the case 40 years ago, when Belfast-bred blue-eyed soul singer Van Morrison found himself broke and stranded on the East Coast...Tags: Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, Theater
-
All that jazz
Lisa Skolnik, a city editor for Metropolitan Home, writes frequently for the Magazine.
Chicago's jazz divas are out in force. Bobbi Wilsyn is here, along with Joan Collaso, Frieda Lee, Spider Saloff, Tammy McCann and Jeannie Lambert, who is bemoaning the...Tags: Billie Holiday, Gold Coast, South Shore, Dizzy Gillespie, Brunch
-
Jazz, cabaret events celebrate longevity
Chicago Tribune criticOnly the savviest musical organizations survive long enough to celebrate major anniversaries, and two of them achieved landmarks over the weekend: Chicago Jazz Orchestra: Thirty years ago, Jeff Lindberg and Steve Jensen launched an experiment in...Tags: Sarah Vaughan, Music, Naperville, Ethel Merman, Academy Awards
-
Peter J. Levinson dies at 74; publicist and biographer of big-band legends
Peter J. Levinson, a veteran music industry publicist who worked with some of the leading names of the big-band era and later wrote biographies of three of them, has died. He was 74.
Levinson died Tuesday at his Malibu home of injuries suffered in a...Tags: Betty Grable, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Fred Astaire, Jack Jones
-
Naughty 'Housewives'
Zap2itA van hugs the switchbacks as it climbs the hills above Los Angeles. Past Ella Fitzgerald Drive and Muddy Waters Lane on the Universal lot, it stops on TV's most famous suburban street, Wisteria Lane. Wisteria is stapled to fake trees, and white fences...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Los Angeles, Pushing Daisies (tv program), Wine, Beer, and Spirits, NBC
Nov 27, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Nov 19, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Nov 16, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Nov 16, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Nov 16, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Nov 14, 2008
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Oct 26, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Nov 1, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 2, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 21, 2008
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 23, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Sep 28, 2008
|Story| Newsday
Original site for Ella Fitzgerald topic gallery.
