Roy Eldridge was known as Little Jazz because he was only 5 feet 6 inches tall. It is a cliche, but true: The small man had a very large influence. NPR says...
Tag - Ella Fitzgerald
The classic jazz community is celebrating the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald, who was born on April 25, 1917. Fitzgerald, along with Billie Holiday and Sarah...
Drummer William Henry (Chick) Webb, who died in 1939 — at only 34 — would be celebrating his 111th birthday today. Here is more on Webb, who was...
Carmen McRae lacked the notoriety that several other female vocalists received. But she was one of the greats. Here are two paragraphs of the very well written...
Sarah Vaughan is one of the big three of classic female jazz singers, alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Here is how the bio of “Sassy”...
The beginning of NPR’s bio of bassist Ray Brown does a good job of quickly defining who he was — and the company he kept: Grammy Award-winning...
Martha and the Vandellas sing Heatwave. Here are other summer- and heat-related songs. Send me links to those I missed: The Heat is On: Glenn Frey (From...
Unlike some other jazz greats, there is a tremendous amount of great Ella Fitzgerald material on YouTube and other video sites. None are better than this...
Mack the Knife is a beloved jazz standard. Besides Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin are heavyweights who recorded it. Here is a...
