Author, jazz writer and musician, STUART NICHSON. He is an expert on and biographer of late jazz great ALLA FITZGERALD. THrough interviews with those closest to her,. "Ella Fitzgerald: A Bioography of the FIrst LAdy of Jazz" (1994, Charlse Scribner's SOns) shows the public and private side of the media-shy legend. In her career of over 60 years, she gained the admirationof her contemporaries in the business. At the age of 79 and after years of suffering from diabetes, Fitzgerald died Saturday (JUne 15) at her home in California. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW
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