Ella Fitzgerald, known as the First Lady of Song, was loved for her smooth voice, clear tone, and impressive scat singing. She recorded many hit songs and albums, becoming one of the most respected ...

LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MINNETTE SATIN DOLL WILSON. ♪ >> SATIN DOLL ♪ DOWN A STRETCH OF WEST FOND DU LAC, NOT TOO FAR FROM LENA’S MARKET SITS A BLACK BRICKED BUILDING. AND LOCKED INSIDE ...

Longtime Milwaukee lounge owner Minnette "Satin Doll" Wilson was known for her fearlessness when it came to speaking her mind. And when police went to Satin Doll's Lounge to talk with Wilson about the ...

To the thousands who enjoyed numbers like Satin Doll, Mood Indigo and Sophisticated Lady, he was the languid maestro who used the royal “we” when he assured his audiences that “We do love you madly.” ...

Duke Ellington, the District native who became one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential composers, had a career that spanned five decades and more than 20,000 performances. Born in 1899 ...

Minnette Wilson was known to pack a tree limb, a .38 revolver and a large knife she called a "Cuban banana killer," at her bar Satin Doll's Lounge. But Wilson's weapon of choice was a feisty ...

Duke Ellington didn't consider himself a jazz musician. He said he was a musician who played jazz. And what a musician: pianist, bandleader, composer of more than 1,000 songs including standards like ...