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'Queen of jazz' Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday commemorated with Google doodle

4949 days ago
The Independent — Google today honoured jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with a doodle on its homepage.     more info

Check Out 'Apollo Live' On BET & The Tour In A City Near You

5111 days ago
Starpulse — The Apollo Theater is famous for being the birthplace of legends and home of future stars. Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vand... more info

Dianne Reeves – review

5118 days ago
Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonDianne Reeves is often considered the torch-bearer of the great Sarah Vaughan's operatic-jazz legacy. But if the names of Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald are often invoked as proof of her class, Reeves has been open to a wider world... more info

Terry Callier obituary

5126 days ago
Guardian Music — Jazz, folk and soul musician with a string of influential albums, who was later taken up by Massive Attack and Beth OrtonFrom his beginnings in jazz, folk and soul music onwards, the singer and guitarist Terry Callier, who has died aged 67 after suff... more info

Letters: An awful racket? No, jazz is a joy

5147 days ago
Guardian Music — While Les Garner is probably not the only Guardian reader to regard jazz as "an awful racket", his suggestion that the music is "played and sung by those who can neither play nor sing in tune" hints at either aberrant critical faculties on his part o... more info

Amy Winehouse: in her own words

5226 days ago
Guardian Music — In a previously unseen interview from 2006, Amy Winehouse shared her love for Sarah Vaughan, gospel music and the Shangri-Las – as well as recalling her first big breakOn her musical evolutionWhen I was younger, I didn't really listen to a lot of s... more info

Family life

5242 days ago
Guardian Music — Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: Our hero, my great-grandfatherThis is a photograph of my great-grandfather, Petty Officer Stoker Edward Attwood. My family never knew much about him because he was one of the first men killed... more info

Bono, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald Among Rare Interviews Soon Available to the Public

5259 days ago
Time — If you want an inside scoop on some of the biggest names in the music business over the last half century, you’ll need someone with inside access. Joe Smith, 84, former president of Capitol Records/EMI, had plenty of interaction with music’s supe... more info

80 years of Abbey Road

5269 days ago
Guardian Music — It's the world's most famous studio and everyone from Edward Elgar to Ella Fitzgerald – and, of course, the Beatles – has made music there. Jon Savage on the unique musical heritage of Abbey Road StudiosAbbey Road would be unthinkable today. Just... more info

Eighty years of Abbey Road - in pictures

5269 days ago
Guardian Music — Musicians from Edward Elgar to Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Bush and, of course, The Beatles are photographed at the world's most famous recording studio more info

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