12:43 p.m. July 11, 2025This article incorrectly identifies Judith Tick as a professor at Northwestern University. She works at Northeastern University. Her reign began as a swing singer with the ...

She remade the American songbook in her image, uprooting the very meaning of musical performance. Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, 1970. Ella Fitzgerald made ...

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