Music fans are mourning the death of legendary jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who passed away at the age of 96. She had been an instrumental figure in the jazz scene, inspiring generations of vocalists.

“I keep moving all the time,” jazz singer and lyricist Kurt Elling said last week. Elling, the winner of two Grammy Awards and dozens more honors, was in Alexandria, Virginia, filming performances ...

Sheila Jordan, a prolific jazz singer who helped pioneer a bebop and scat singing style, has died. She was 96. Jordan’s death was announced by her daughter, Tracey, in an Instagram post on Monday, Aug ...

A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and scribe remarked: “I wear headphones when I play his records because people might ...

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Later today, the Cannes Film Festival will reverberate with the sound of one of America’s great jazz singers. An exclusive screening of Sloane: A Jazz Singer will take place this afternoon at the ...

The jazz singer's 1960s concert career is amply documented on record, with live albums from Berlin, LA, Tokyo and the French Riviera. Now comes a newly released concert of Fitzgerald in Oakland, Calif ...

Neil Diamond decided to try something different when he took his first major acting role in The Jazz Singer in 1980. Unfortunately, most film critics found him and the film in which he starred to be ...

"America's Jazz Heritage"--Box. Previously released on various labels. Compact discs. Program notes by Robert G. O'Meally, with bibliography and indexes (127 p. : ill. ; 29 x 14 cm.) laid in container ...

A third-season episode of the television show “Mad Men,” titled “My Old Kentucky Home,” finds Don Draper and the crew from Sterling Cooper at a Kentucky Derby party. But it’s not the racing horses ...