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Vor einem Tag · Judith Tick’s Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song gives us more details than we’ve ever had before but, even so, the public Ella always wins out over the private. Billie Holiday’s troubled life was reflected in her singing and, sixty-five years after her death, her recordings still powerfully convey it.
Vor 5 Tagen · 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.
Vor 4 Tagen · 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.
Vor 4 Tagen · 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.
Vor einem Tag · 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. Towards the end of the night she gave the audience “God Bless the Child ...
Vor 3 Tagen · On this edition of Conversations, Larry Tye talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Jazzmen – How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America.”
Vor 4 Tagen · 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.
