Margie Orford

Ethel, Ella and all that jazz: the soundtrack of a Chicago childhood

The critic Margo Jefferson describes how deeply she has been influenced by the great black performers of the past

Ella Fitzgerald. [Getty Images] 
issue 25 June 2022
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