Word: ella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hair and a smoldering glare, Krall could easily have been mistaken for a big-screen starlet. But appearances aside, the moment she launched into the opening notes of Carter's classic heartbreaker, Fresh Out of Love, it was clear that this compelling new singer has more in common with Ella Fitzgerald than with any Hollywood actress...
...Parkinson's disease; in Las Vegas. One of the first African-American stand-ups to play Vegas clubs, Kirby was for years a fixture on TV variety and talk shows. His repertoire of 100 voices spanned races and sexes, including dead-on renditions of jazz divas Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald...
...Many don't, and are thus handicapped by pop's 30-year tyranny of singer-songwriters. Since the Beatles and Bob Dylan, this is the rule: if you don't write, you're no artist. "Vocal interpreter" used to be an honorable job description--good enough for Crosby, Sinatra, Ella, Billie Holiday, Nat Cole, who wrote little of their own material. Now the epithet is often a slur. It suggests a lounge singer crooning Can You Feel the Love Tonight...
...Jones developed his own keyboard style, taking some of Tatum's breakneck invention and adding a measure of cool, a distinctive touch of romantic reserve to offset the fire of what came, in time, to be called bebop. Jones was also a sideman for Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; he went to school with the best...
...Ella Fitzgerald