Jazz – My World of Interiors

Ella Fitzgerald: The Architecture of Song

To speak of Ella Fitzgerald is to speak of precision, clarity, and grace so absolute that they verge on the metaphysical. Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1917 and raised in Yonkers, Fitzgerald emerged from poverty and the turbulence of her early life to become one of the most celebrated voices of the twentieth century.Continue reading “Ella Fitzgerald: The Architecture of Song”

Jazz: The Sound That Shaped the Modern Century

Jazz has always been more than music. It is improvisation, rebellion, conversation, and seduction — the soundtrack of the 20th century’s upheavals and freedoms. Born in the crucible of Black experience in America, it spread across continents, infiltrated fashion, cinema, literature, and politics, and became the lingua franca of modernity. To trace the history ofContinue reading “Jazz: The Sound That Shaped the Modern Century”