Ella Fitzgerald at 100

Ella Fitzgerald at 100. At JazzWax, a few remarks about the singer's significance and 9 videos of her TV duets... https://t.co/O1xgkMMu9W pic.twitter.com/tfRdnXEpgv

— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 25 de abril de 2017

Ella Fitzgerald to be ...

Ella Fitzgerald to Be Celebrated at Bayshore Center's 2nd Friday Event - SNJ Today https://t.co/FRekekHCW6

— Jazz music view (@Jazzmusicview) 6 de abril de 2017

#EllaFitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald- "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That #Swing" 1957... https://t.co/yB2hiNAvnN via @YouTube

— Count Swing (@zootswings) October 24, 2016

Ella Fitzgerald

RIP Ella Fitzgerald who died #OTD 1996 here’s 10 things you may not know about her https://t.co/BhOP6zISmd #Jazz pic.twitter.com/1Orqr5M25R

— uDiscover Music (@uDiscoverMusic) June 15, 2016

Sweet Georgia Brown - Ella Fitzgerald

Performace de Ella Fitzgerald em 1974.

Ella's House....

Ella Fitzgerald house where he lived from 1949 to 1956and Ray Brown, 1949-1953.

From  >>  http://borboletasdejade.blogspot.com/2010/11/curiosidades-do-jazz_06.html

Billie Holiday & Ella Fitzgerald

A Musical Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald ... "Lush Life" ... presented by Gill Manly....

A Musical Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald ... "Lush Life" ... presented by Gill Manly , Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars

Monday 28th June - Tuesday 29th June

GILL MANLY SINGS ELLA FITZGERALD “LUSH LIFE”

In 2009 GILL MANLY released her first recording since 1995 on the Linn Record Label. The album was entitled “With A Song in My Heart” and was Gill’s personal reflection on the work of the consummate jazz singer of the 20th century Ella Fitzgerald.

"Now she is back with an album that is easily one of the best vocal efforts of the past 12 months."

CLIVE DAVIS - THE TIMES

"In “With a Song in My Heart” Gill Manly has achieved a fantastic piece work. The album is like a good book which you can’t put down till you’ve reached the last page. And having reached the last page, leaves you wanting more ." SEMPRE AUDIO

“Manly's power and grace are (gratifyingly) rooted elsewhere: in the era of classic jazz inhabited by the likes of Hampton, Jacquet, Gillespie and Ellington, as well as Ella, Billie and Sarah. Warmly recommended.” CHRIS PARKER

Following this release the Jazz world sat up and took notice again of a singer who having deserted the scene for some 7 years and amongst other things sang for the Dalai Lama and ran a café in a park. Since then Gill has wowed audiences from the Purcell Room to her sell-out seasons at Ronnies with her Portrait of Nina Simone.

“Fiercely launching into ‘Mood Indigo,’ this told the audience one thing: “I mean business!” She immediately demonstrated her massive range and the incredible drama that she brings to her delivery. She is a great singer – capable of singing with a catalogue of emotions in just an 8-bar phrase.” SARAH-ELLEN HUGHES

“Overall it was a terrific show. Their rapport couldn’t be faulted. The delivery was charming, the vocals outstanding. And the relentless applause which brought them back to the stage three times said it all.” LONDON JAZZ BLOG

“An assured and accomplished singer, and richly deserved the standing ovation received from a full house. “ CHRIS PARKER

Expect a trio of world class quality to accompany Gill as she leads you gently and charmingly through the Ella Fitzgerald smooth classics, With A Song in My Heart, September Song, Midnight Sun, Bye Bye Blackbird, Love for Sale and many more……
Featuring
•A Musical Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald ... "Lush Life" ... presented by Gill Manly
•Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars
 
http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/369-a-musical-portrait-of-ella-fitzgerald-andquotlush-lifeandquot-presented-by-gill-manly

Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song

by Susan Stamberg
Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing — a form of spontaneous musical invention — was as dazzling as her simplest melodic statements. She started as a band singer, then spent the next two decades as a soloist. In 1956, Fitzgerald began recording the Great American Songbook — albums of music by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and the Gershwin brothers. It's what made her "America's First Lady of Song." Many singers recorded these numbers, and pianist Billy Taylor worked with many of them.

"[These were] wonderful singers who did wonderful things," Taylor says. "But for me, Ella was the one that really touched my heart. She was so sincere." Taylor accompanied Fitzgerald in the 1940s. "Ella was such a great musician that any way you went, she would get there," Taylor says. "The feeling of music that she brought — you had to swing, you had to go along with the music, go along with the words. The whole idea that she was presenting — she was really so complete."

Painfully Shy
In 1983, the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer sang with Fitzgerald. Janis Siegel remembers their afternoon rehearsal."We were all around the piano," Siegel says. "We did our little four-part harmony party, and then she scatted a couple of choruses. And she turns to us and said, 'Was that all right?' And I was so flabbergasted. It's like God asking angels after he just created the world and turned and said, "Well, whaddya think? The Grand Canyon? Could it use a little tweaking?' " Fitzgerald had very little self-confidence. From childhood on, she was painfully shy."She never believed that she was really Ella Fitzgerald," Taylor say

Awkward, Yet Just Perfect
In Newport News, Va., her mother was a laundress. Her father left the family when Fitzgerald was 3. She spent time with an aunt, then in foster care and a reformatory. In New York, she won singing contests, worked with bands, and recorded some hit records. Her first million-seller was a novelty tune called "A-Tisket, A-Tasket.

"I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them."

- Ira Gershwin

But her career went up and down. In the '30s and '40s, band singers were mostly blond, sophisticated and attractive. Fitzgerald was awkward, gawky and even a bit chubby by comparison — in the words of one newspaper writer, "a big, light-colored gal." But could she sing. She had impeccable timing and perfect pitch. In fact, band musicians said they would tune up to her voice. Endlessly inventive, only on record did she sing the same way twice. There's no sad edge to her voice — Ella Fitzgerald has listeners smiling by the second note.

"I never listen to Ella for emotional depth, but for sheer purity of tone, musicality, playfulness, inventiveness and rhythmic virtuosity," Siegel says. "To me, there's no one like Ella Fitzgerald." "Well, she sang like an instrument — the voice was the instrument," Taylor says. "It's like a clarinet or like a trombone or like a whatever — more so than thinking of the lyrics."

In A Dream
Fitzgerald, who died in 1996, sang "How High the Moon" dozens of times. To some, her most remarkable recording was made at a concert in Berlin in 1960. There's something otherworldly about that performance. By the end, it's as if she's on another planet, as if she cannot stop.

"It's like her life will end if she gets off that stage. And while she's on stage, she's in the dream," Siegel says. "She's in a dream of everything is harmonious, and people love her, and she can just go for chorus after chorus of inventiveness. It's astounding."

Even more astounding is the fact that she takes listeners right along with her. Mopping her face with an ever-present handkerchief, holding the microphone like a cigarette, and tilting her head back when she has to, Ella Fitzgerald is singing her heart out. Always.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125170386&sc=nl&cc=jn-20100404

Ella with trio. She is vivid

Ella Fitzgerald, she doesn't look like how she sound. Tha was my first impression seeing her. That was at Macormick Place, Chicago in 1967. She was backed by Oscar Perterson Trio. So, I remember. But not sure now. Tha was piano trio anyway. That is sure thing.

Till then I have heard her with big bands. That was rather noise to me and I was not the eagar listner of her. But this session gave me the quite different sound that I like. One is that her scat sound much more vivid that that with big band. Listen to this one. She is beautiful. I won't send his kind of high notes to Ella for sure or rather I'd be quiet and let base to the work. That should have been much nicer. "Summertime" at a concert in Berlin/Germany.

Ella Fitzgerald & The Manhattan Transfer - How High The Moon

Ella Fitzgerald & The Manhattan Transfer - How High The Moon (Grammy Awards 1983)