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Ella co-wrote the song with Hardy and Jordan Schmidt. While there’s no official release date yet, it will appear on a new ...
Wilfred Middlebrooks, the double bassist whose elegant, understated sound was heard in the band that backed jazz great Ella Fitzgerald and in the Paul Smith Trio, died of heart failure March 13 at ...
With the loose, laid-back, bluesy feel that its name implies, local band Deep Ella succeeds by employing simple hooks and sweet, airy vocals that don't just speak of emotions but act as conduits ...
Ella's debut album, Call and Response: Rhythmic Group Singing, came out in 1957 and her final album, Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends, was released sixty years later in 2017.
Clever, music-obsessed Kat Malone (Ella Hunt) creates her ultimate side-hustle: managing a struggling band, led by skeptical Alex (Dougie Poynter) while balancing the average teenage pressures of ...
Session ace Ella Feingold has recalled the time she auditioned to join Prince's band – and the Purple Rain legend joked her playing was “too funky”. The Prince guitar gig was widely known to ...
Now, Payne, 79, stars in a new production of "Ella," which comes to the Madison Theatre at Molloy College in Rockville Centre from Aug. 18 to Sept. 11. In the show, Fitzgerald's life is an open book.
Ella Jenkins, a prolific and internationally known singer, songwriter and performer who earned the nickname the “First Lady of Children’s Music,” has died at 100.
A Century of Ella Jenkins: Tributes to the First Lady of Children’s Music. To celebrate Ella Jenkins on her hundredth birthday in August, we asked a group of musicians how Ella has inspired them.
Ella Eyre says she only had 24 hours' notice to replace Jess Glynne on the bill for the Isle of Wight festival. The Rather Be singer cancelled her main stage slot on her doctor's advice. "I'm so ...
Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing — a form of spontaneous musical invention — was as dazzling as her simplest melodic statements. She started as a band singer, then spent the next two decades as ...
It’s impossible to rank the records in Ella Fitzgerald’s songbook series, but the 1958 Irving Berlin collection is surely essential in any music library. This Verve reissue packages the two CDs ...