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 ...

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was a gifted American jazz artist. She had a warm and lovely voice, with notable rhythmic sense, versatility, and intonation, as well as exceptional talent at scat singing.

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