On June 14, master percussionist Chief Baba Neil Clarke pays homage to his longtime friend and bandleader pianist NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston, at Sista’s Place ( 456 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn). Two ...

Billie Eilish’s “Wildflower” hits 50 weeks on the Hot 100, surpassing “Bad Guy” to become her second-longest-charting hit as ...

The Official Graphic Novel article by Nenad Georgievski, published on June 2, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Book Review ...

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone are some of her heroes and there have been comparisons to Amy Winehouse and Adele in some of her songs. After releasing a number of covers to ...

TAUNTON — Frank Sinatra. Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong. Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald. Count Basie. Tony Bennett. Aerosmith. Vanilla Fudge. Cab Calloway. Benny ...

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 ...

Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald ... "You can’t compare Lesley Gore with Frank Sinatra ...

Judith Tick’s Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song gives us more details than we’ve ever had before but, even so, the public Ella always wins out over the private.

[laughs] Who is Ella? Ella Fitzgerald is—the consummate singer. She has it all. Jessica Vosk: Samara comes from a musical family and grew up listening to gospel music and later jazz.the greats like ...

Billie felt more than Ella did; therefore, she thought more. Holiday “was a story-teller who made most of her fans fall in love with her; [Fitzgerald] is a musician,” one early 1960s reviewer ...

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 ...

I had been listening to Billie Holiday since way back. She appealed to me because she has more of that bluesy, emotional approach to jazz. I am not and nor do I pretend to be an Ella Fitzgerald or ...