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 ...

In 2011, when Judith Tick asked him about the omission, he responded that "there wasn't room to cover two singers, and he had chosen Billie Holiday" (Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, p. 429). Tick's ...

In thinking about vocal jazz, I’m continually drawn to two legends: Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. They are perhaps the most emblematic singers of the genre, voices that most have heard at ...

On Sunday and Monday, July 7 and 8, she undertakes the even more ambitious project of channeling Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday in the same evening. How does one go about impersonating two of ...

2017 marks 100 years since the birth of Ella ... and Billie Holiday. She has always had an appreciation for vintage music. “I guess I just have an old soul,” she says, laughing. Fitzgerald ...

Years before mononyms became standard fare for the likes of Elvis, Bono and Beyoncé, vocal giants Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan were so respected and beloved that many fans ...

One hundred and one years after her birth and two decades after her death, Ella Fitzgerald ... Neither brooding like Billie Holiday nor formidable like Sarah Vaughan, Fitzgerald was more like ...

By Dwight Garner Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were ... belting or scatting, but Ella Fitzgerald was a quiet person in private. “Jazz Singers” is to open at the Library ...