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Ella Fitzgerald

July 2024

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Donna Summer and Bruce Springsteen

    ‘Should not be played indoors’: writers on their all-time favourite summertime songs

    As the weather heats up, Guardian writers pick their defining summer tracks, from Phoenix and Donna Summer to Stevie Wonder

December 2022

  • Sufjan Stevens in Santa hat, looking glum.

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

    Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever

May 2020

  • Mercurial talent ... Ella Fitzgerald.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the story of Ella Fitzgerald and her remarkable voice

    A new documentary delves into the jazz singer’s austere beginnings and rise to stardom in the face of prejudice. Plus: Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow begins. Here’s what to watch this evening

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

September 2018

  • It’s all for nothing...

    Young arts run free: the 50 best things to do in the UK for zilch

    Whether you’re a social strategist or a stone-broke student, there’s a world of cultural freebies to be seized across the UK

December 2017

  • Sally Rooney

    On my radar
    On my radar: Sally Rooney’s cultural highlights

    The writer on Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas LP, her appreciation of brilliant footballers and why Radio 4’s Saturday Review is perfect while washing dishes

November 2017

  • In tune ... Gregory Porter on the trail of the virtuoso singing voice.

    TV review
    Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices review – glorious survey of powerful pipes

    From Prince and Whitney Houston to Mahalia Jackson, the first episode of the jazz star’s three-part series is a languid, loving celebration of vocal showstoppers

August 2017

  • Dianne Reeves, leading a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Prom 27: Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute review – virtuosic hat tip to jazz legends' greatest hits

  • Ella Fitzgerald in 1958.

    Kandace Springs on Ella Fitzgerald at 100: 'She'll always be my hero'

July 2017

  • Photo of Nina Simone<br>UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1960: Photo of Nina Simone (Photo by George Pickow/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about being trapped

    Nina Simone, Warren Zevon and Corb Lund are among the artists stuck in various states of mire in this week’s reader-curated playlist

June 2017

  • Small comforts in desperate times: Jack Lemmon, right, in Some Like it Hot.

    Stop the world, I need a break

    Victoria Coren Mitchell
    The news is terrible, but here are some things to force it out of your mind for a moment

November 2016

  • Kay Starr in 1965.

    Kay Starr obituary

    Versatile US jazz and pop singer best known for her 1950s hit Wheel of Fortune

May 2016

  • Standard Dylan.

    Music blog
    Bob Dylan's new album – as performed by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and more

    Bob Dylan’s new album, Fallen Angels, brings together 12 mid-20th century standards. We’ve compiled a playlist of the finest versions

April 2016

  • Ella Fitzgerald, who makes this week’s list, performs at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub in Chicago in 1958.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs with girls' names

    Chapter by chapter, our reader takes us through the story of her choices for this week’s emotionally charged playlist – from Maggie May to Springsteen’s Rosalita

February 2016

  • CURTIS MAYFIELD<br>FILE-- Curtis Mayfield is shown in this undated handout photo. The composer and songwriter, whose string of hits include "Superfly," "People Get Ready,'' "Talking About My Baby,'' and "Keep On Pushing,'' died Sunday, Dec. 26, 1999. Mayfield was 57.(AP Photo/Curtom Records, ho)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about overturning the odds – and a new theme

  • Kate Bush - cloudbusting

    The lab playlist: 16 great songs about science (and a bad one)

August 2015

  • Herdwick sheep in Cumbria, Lake District, UK.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about farming – results

    Australian sheep-shearing to Oklahoma heartache, Fitzgerald to Springsteen and Young, RR regular deanofromoz picks a top crop of songs from last week’s topic

July 2015

  • The Smiths at Salford Lads Club.

    Records from a rented room
    Records from a rented room: homesick blues and dreams of escape

    As Anita Sethi visits her hometown of Manchester, she considers how singers have explored the tug to both leave home and return, what makes a house a home, and how music can capture the longing to belong

February 2015

  • Clark Terry in 1991.

    Clark Terry obituary

    Trumpeter who played with jazz greats such as Holiday and Fitzgerald

January 2015

  • The Eagles

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about hotels – results

    RR’s veteran Marconius checks in with songs from last week’s topic
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