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Official account for the "First Lady of Song" Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald
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- By performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, a pillar of American pop culture, Ella didn’t just shine as a jazz star, she helped carry jazz into the mainstream like few others could. 🎥: NBC
- The Queen of Jazz commands the stage with her scatting in "It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)" on The Ed Sullivan Show, performed with Duke Ellington on the keys in 1965. ✨ 🎥: CBS
- 2Ella Fitzgerald’s voice was so powerful, it shook up more than audiences. In 1955, she was arrested in Houston, along with Georgiana Henry, Illinois Jacquet, and Dizzy Gillespie, officially for “gambling,” but really for daring to sing for an integrated audience. 📸: Houston Metropolitan Research Center/Houston Public Library
- This limited-edition collection of 50 singles from Ella Fitzgerald’s hit-making years on Verve Records, the second of two volumes, showcases Ella singing with an incomparable level of artistry, whether interpreting songs by Cole Porter, the Gershwins or The Beatles, and features liner notes by Ella biographer, Stuart Nicholson. Quantities are limited, pre-order yours now!
Available for pre-order today: The Rodgers and Hart Songbook is full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella’s hands these songs become even more special. Standouts include: ‘Manhattan’, which has one of the most sublime moments on any Ella recording, ‘There’s a Small Hotel’, ‘You Took Advantage of Me’, and the perennial, ‘My Funny Valentine’. It features the cream of West Coast session musicians: Maynard Ferguson (trumpet), Milt Bernhart (trombone), Herb Geller and Ted Nash and Bud Shank (doubling on clarinets and saxophone), Barney Kessel (guitar), and Alvin Stoller (drums). 🎶
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