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Mary J. Blige was honoured by the Apollo Theater on Friday.

Fremantle has acquired international distribution rights to Oscar Peterson: Black and White, the feature-length documentary about the iconic jazz pianist being directed by Barry Avrich. The deal is for overseas rights excluding Canada on the film, which is underway on production. A fall 2021 release is planned.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJanelle Monáe pays tribute to legendary Black female entertainers in Ralph Lauren’s fashion film for its spring 2021 collection.The 20-minute “Casablanca”-inspired movie, which premiered on Thursday night on ralphlauren.com, features the song “Dorothy Dandridge Eyes.”“Dorothy Dandridge, Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald — we love you,” Monáe says mid-song.

NEW YORK -- Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend “Ella” — that’s Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals — and the jazz legend wants to introduce her to jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson, who had just finished performing.“Ella Fitzgerald says, ‘You need to hear her,’” Carrington, now 55, recalls. “She was just somebody who would encourage me and hang out with me.

Beyoncé, Prince, Lil Wayne, and Frank Ocean plus emerging Black artists you may not know yet.Consider it your soundtrack for February.Songs for Black History Month: Old & New Classics Black artists have dominated the music industry throughout history with their artistry and influence.Going as far back as Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, James Brown, and B.B. King, Black artists have given us music that will always be remembered and used for

City of Angels when COVID-19 struck.“We closed March 16th,” Williams says. “That Sunday, the 15th, one of our cast members didn’t feel well.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRepublic Records has signed 14-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter Angelina Jordan, who won “Norway’s Got Talent” as an eight-year-old and will release her first single, “Million Miles,” self-written and produced by hitmaking duo Stargate (Beyonce, Rihanna, Sam Smith), on Friday.A musical prodigy, Jordan began studying classic singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong at the age of five.

Ella Fitzgerald live recording is getting its first ever release this October.A recording of the concert, which took place at Berlin’s Sportpalast in 1962, were discovered unopened within the private collection of Verve Records founder and Fitzgerald’s manager, Norman Granz.The concert was recorded two years after Fitzgerald’s iconic release, ‘Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife’ and sees Ella performing alongside a trio comprising pianist Paul Smith, bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks and drummer Stan

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Chris Willman Music WriterEarly on in “Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things,” singer Patti Austin tells the story of how Fitzgerald — traveling with a big band in the 1930s and apparently the only one on the bus with no interest in getting high — would sit in the back with her coat over her head to act as her “own personal filtration system.” That’s good for a laugh, and it’s also good for a sense of relief, in being reminded that this will be the rare film about a 20th century jazz giant

When a nervous 17-year-old Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night at the Apollo in 1934, the legendary Harlem theater's talent contest was new, and the orphaned teen hadn't planned to sing. She was going to dance, as she had been doing on street corners in the neighborhood.

Graced with one of the finest and most mercurial voices in jazz, Ella Fitzgerald was a titan of song during the five decades of her career. This illuminating doc traces Fitzgerald’s life from appearing at 16 in a talent contest at the Harlem Apollo while she was homeless to facing horrific racism as a singer in the 1940s before becoming one of the leading voices in the civil rights movement. Archive clips provide an insight into Fitzgerald’s huge talent. Ammar Kalia

Ella Fitzgerald at Ziegfeld’s/Secrets – File Photo by Ward Morrison

We've long had questions about what Denise Richards' hubby, Aaron Phypers, does for a living — and we've (kind of) gotten some answers. Denise previously said on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills After Show, "It's light and sound therapy.

Coinciding with Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday on Saturday (April 25), Concord Jazz is releasing Ella 100: Live at the Apollo! on Friday (April 24). The tribute was recorded at the iconic Harlem, New York venue where the premier jazz vocalist got her start competing in its equally legendary Amateur Night talent show. Eight-time Grammy Award winner and 2010 Latin Grammy producer of the year Gregg

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Wyclef Jean is jumping on the Christmas train this year by putting his unique spin on one of the most beloved holiday songs of all time.