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Hace 4 días · Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington: The Story of a Friendship. by Matt Micucci. In 1956, producer Normal Granz launched Ella Fitzgerald’s Song Book series with the release of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book.
Hace 16 horas · Was it jazz? Perhaps not, but you could still hear the jazz singer. Even on her new version of “Lady Be Good” (for the Gershwin album), which is possibly the slowest ever recorded, she swings like no one else; and on the Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (with the composer as bandleader) she even brings out the scatting.
Hace 3 días · 1. Ella Fitzgerald. We begin with Ella Fitzgerald, who is truly one of the greats—you have to be to earn such a title as the First Lady of Song. One of the most popular female jazz singers in the country, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards and sold more than 40 million albums in her lifetime.
Hace 3 días · She became a star of swing, the most popular genre in the 1930s and 1940s. But she ranged with equal success between various musical genres and subgenres such as be-bop, calypso, samba, gospel, blues. She worked profitably with sacred monsters such as Duke Ellington And Louis Armstrong and not as a supporting actress.
Hace 16 horas · Ella Fitzgerald’s performance in Carnegie Hall on 24 June 1988 was billed as her seventieth birthday concert. She came on stage to a standing ovation, eschewing the stool provided for her (it was known she had been seriously ill), and then sang for two hours, her voice seemingly growing stronger as the evening wore on.
Hace 4 días · In April 1999, for example, JAZZIZ celebrated the 100th anniversary of composer Duke Ellington with an issue that featured Duke from cover to cover, complete with an interview with Wynton Marsalis and a comic written by Harvey Pekar.
Hace 4 días · On this episode of The Art of the Story, author Judith Tick talks about what inspired her to write a biography about Ella Fitzgerald. Tick spoke with WBGO's Lee Mergner about her biography Becoming Ella: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song.
