Longtime friends Ellen Winters and Johnny Rodgers will combine their vocal talents to share the music of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme for “Ella Meets Mel” Dec. 17 at the Skokie Theatre. They will be ...

Ella, First Lady of Song traces the 60-year career of the woman Mel Torme called “the best singer on the planet.” The story of Ella Fitzgerald truly challenges the age-old saying “The show must go on.

Award-winning jazz vocalist Gabrielle Stravelli and pianist/vocalist and Grammy-winning composer and recording artist Billy Stritch (Broadway’s 42nd Street; long-time accompanist for Liza Minnelli) ...

Ella Fitzgerald, whose sweet, silvery voice and endlessly inventive vocal improvisations made her the most celebrated jazz singer of her generation, died Saturday at home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She ...