From 1996 to 2002 I produced 15 shows—mostly on vocalists—or NPR's Jazz Profiles. I was fortunate to have as subjects two legendary vocalists—Ernestine Anderson and Rosemary Clooney—both of whom I ...

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Three months after a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the federal tax-fraud case against New Orleans’ 2nd City Court Judge Ernestine Anderson-Trahan, a judge on Tuesday acquitted her of all ...

The blues, jazz, and soul singer Ernestine Anderson is no more. She passed to the other side yesterday, surrounded by her family in Seattle. Quincy Jones, another famous black American musician with ...

An upper gold tooth shines like a phosphorous eye when she opens her mouth to sing. The scimitar eyes may close, the slender hands seem to carve the phrases out of the choky nightclub air. And the ...

Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice presented a case riddled with inconsistencies and that failed to prove New Orleans 2nd City Judge Ernestine Anderson-Trahan acted willfully when she ...

The jury of a New Orleans judge who is facing a trial for tax fraud has been reported as deadlocked. The case has been declared a mistrial. Jurors deliberating the case against Second City Court Judge ...

Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson’s home has been saved from foreclosure — for now, thanks, in part, to music legend Quincy Jones and contemporary jazz artist Diane Schuur. More than $43,000 poured in ...