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Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today!

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, ...

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Video: Ella Fitzgerald at the BBC, 1965

Video: Ella Fitzgerald at the BBC, 1965

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

On May 8, 1965, the BBC broadcast a taped TV concert that Ella Fitzgerald had recorded earlier that year in front of a studio audience. She was joined on songs by her trio—Tommy Flanagan on piano, Keter Betts on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums. There were no musician solos, other than during the intro and outro. It's all Ella. She also sang songs backed by the Johnnie Spence Orchestra, a roaring British big band. The arrangements? They were by ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today!

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, ...

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The MPS Records legacy resumes with vinyl releases of Ella Fitzgerald’s 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and Freddie Hubbard’s'The Hub of Hubbard'

The MPS Records legacy resumes with vinyl releases of Ella Fitzgerald’s 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and Freddie Hubbard’s'The Hub of Hubbard'

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions

Jazz history was forged in the rustic Black Forest of Germany in 1968 when Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer launched MPS Records and recorded some of the genre’s seminal artists. Legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, The Count Basie Orchestra and George Duke released albums on the prestigious label known for its high-level recording technique and distinctive aesthetic. Much of MPS’s catalog will be reissued in the United States over the coming months thanks to a ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today!

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, ...

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Ella Fitzgerald in Holland, 1974

Ella Fitzgerald in Holland, 1974

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers


Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today!

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington... ...

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Recording

Singer Carolyn Fitzhugh Demonstrates Vocal & Compositional Chops On 'Living In Peace,' Set For March 15 Release By IYOUWE Records

Singer Carolyn Fitzhugh Demonstrates Vocal & Compositional Chops On 'Living In Peace,' Set For March 15 Release By IYOUWE Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Carolyn Fitzhugh’s soul-infused jazz vocals attain new heights with her March 15 release of Living in Peace, for Lenny White’s IYOUWE Records. Fitzhugh’s second album also finds the Chicago native in esteemed company. Produced by Grammy nominee Mark Ruffin and given lush arrangements by state-of-the-art pianist and composer Amina Figarova, the recording features Figarova’s working band—a murderer’s row of major jazz musicians that includes tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, guitarist Rez Abbasi, and drummer Rudy Royston—and, on one track, the legendary ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ella Fitzgerald

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birthday today!

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington... ...

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Recording

Singer, Songwriter, Composer And Arranger Carolyn Fitzhugh Releases Her Long Awaited Debut CD!

Singer, Songwriter, Composer And Arranger Carolyn Fitzhugh Releases Her Long Awaited Debut CD!

Source: Pro Marketing Entertainment

Chicago native Carolyn Fitzhugh has released her debut CD Simply Amazing and one listen to any one of her exhilarating vocal performances and you're sure to be left spellbound as her many adoring fans have been left again and again! Carolyn Fitzhugh grew in a home that was filled with the aroma of a diverse assortment of music greats from Miles Davis, {{m: John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald to Morgana King and Sarah Vaughn to Minnie Ripperton, Ray Charles, Earth ...

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