Artist: Ella Fitzgerald Genre(s):
Jazz
Vocal
Pop
Discography:
Lullabies of Birdland Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Forever Ella Year: 2007
Tracks: 20
Gold CD2 Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Gold CD1 Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Ella's Moods Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
The Early Years Part 1 CD2 CD2 Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
The Early Years Part 1 CD2 CD1 Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
The Early Years Part 1 CD1 CD1 Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, Volume 2 CD2 Year: 1997
Tracks: 19
Lady Time Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Jazz Masters 46 Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
Ella Abraca Jobim Year: 1995
Tracks: 17
The Rodgers and Hart Songbook CD1 CD2 Year: 1993
Tracks: 18
The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
For the Love of Ella Fitzgerald ( CD2: Ballads and Blues) CD2 Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
For the Love of Ella Fitzgerald ( CD1: Monuments of Swing) CD1 Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Digital III At Montreux Year: 1979
Tracks: 8
Ella at Duke's Place Year: 1965
Tracks: 10
These Are The Blues Year: 1964
Tracks: 10
The Johnny Mercer Songbook Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
The Jerome Kern Songbook Year: 1964
Tracks: 13
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Hohnny Mercer Song Book Year: 1964
Tracks: 13
E.Fitzgerald Sings The J.Merce Year: 1964
Tracks: 13
Rhythm Is My Business Year: 1962
Tracks: 13
Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Year: 1962
Tracks: 15
Ella Sings Broadway Year: 1962
Tracks: 12
A Classy Pair Year: 1962
Tracks: 9
The Harold Arlen Songbook(CD1) Year: 1961
Tracks: 13
The Harold Arlen Songbook (Volume One) Year: 1961
Tracks: 13
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! Year: 1961
Tracks: 17
Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin Year: 1960
Tracks: 9
Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (CD3) CD3 Year: 1959
Tracks: 18
Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (CD2) CD2 Year: 1959
Tracks: 18
Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book (CD1) CD1 Year: 1959
Tracks: 17
Our Love Is Here To Stay Year: 1959
Tracks: 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Geor Year: 1959
Tracks: 53
The Irving Berlin Songbook(cd1) Year: 1958
Tracks: 16
The Irving Berlin Songbook Vol Year: 1958
Tracks: 32
The Birthday Concert In Rome Year: 1958
Tracks: 18
Porgy And Bess Year: 1958
Tracks: 15
The Best Of The Song Books Year: 1957
Tracks: 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Duke Ell Year: 1957
Tracks: 37
At the Opera House Year: 1957
Tracks: 18
The Rodgers and Hart Songbook CD1 CD1 Year: 1956
Tracks: 17
Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Year: 1956
Tracks: 34
Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Volume 1 CD1 Year: 1956
Tracks: 16
Sings the Cole Porter Song Boo Year: 1956
Tracks: 32
Pure Ella Year: 1954
Tracks: 20
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (CD1) CD1 Year: 1950
Tracks: 13
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book ( CD3) CD3 Year: 1950
Tracks: 7
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book CD1 CD2 Year: 1950
Tracks: 17
One Side Of Me Vol.2 Year: 1939
Tracks: 19
One Side Of Me Vol.1 Year: 1939
Tracks: 25
Ken Burns Jazz Series: Ella Fitzgerald Year:
Tracks: 18
Jazz Masters 6 Year:
Tracks: 16
"The Number one Lady of Call," Ella Fitzgerald was arguably the finest female idle words vocaliser of entirely prison term (although around crataegus oxycantha vote for Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday). Blessed with a beautiful voice and a wide pot chain, Ella Fitzgerald could outswing anyone, was a smartness as a whip scat singing singing vocalizer, and had near-perfect elocution; ane could always see the wrangle she genus Panax quinquefolius. The one error was that, since she always sounded so sword lily to be gibber, Ella Fitzgerald did not ever dig come out under the airfoil of the lyrics she interpreted and she regular made a downbeat song such as "Love for Sale" levelheaded joyous. However, when 1 evaluates her occupational group on a whole, at that seat is just no one else in her class.
Peerless could never guess from her palaver that Ella Fitzgerald's early long time were as dour as Billie Holiday's. Growth up in pauperisation, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was literally homeless person for the year sooner she got her vauntingly break. In 1934, she appeared at the Phoebus Theatre in Harlem, winning an amateur contest by vocalizing "Judy" in the vogue of her paragon, Connee Boswell. After a curt erolia minutilla with Tiny Bradshaw, F. Scott Fitzgerald was brought to the financial aid of Bird Sidney Webb by Benny Carter (human race Health Organization was in the hearing at the Phoebus). Beatrice Webb, reality Health Organisation was non impressed by the 17-year-old's appearance, was reluctantly persuaded to economic rent her sing with his orchestra on a one-nighter. She went over well and before long the drummer recognised her commercial electric car voltage. Starting in 1935, Edward Fitzgerald began recording with Webb's Orchestra, and by 1937 all over half of the band's selections featured her vocalisation. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a vast pull in in 1938 and "Unresolved" currently followed. During this earned run average, Fitzgerald was essentially a pop/swing isaac Merrit Singer world Health Organization was best on ballads bandage her medium-tempo performances were broadly puerile novelties. She already had a beautiful voice merely did non improvise or scat singing singing practically; that would develop later.
On June 16, 1939, Chick Beatrice Webb died. It was distinct that Edward Fitzgerald would front the orchestra regular though she had little to do with the repertoire or hiring or bagging the musicians. She retained her popularity and when she skint up the set in 1941 and went solo; it was non tenacious in front her Decca recordings contained more than than their part of hits. She was teamed with the Ink Musca volitans, Joseph Louis Barrow Jordan River, and the Delta Rhythm Boys for close to best-sellers, and in 1946 began on the job on a regular foundation for Jessye Norman Granz's Jazz at the Symphony. Granz became her handler although it would be well-nigh a x before he could become her on his label. A major change occurred in Fitzgerald's recounting around this menstruum. She toured with Dizzy Gillespie's self-aggrandising band, adoptive federal official Dresser of Prisons as part of her fashion, and started including exciting scat-filled romps in her scratch. Her recordings of "Gentlewoman Be Goodness," "How High the Moon," and "Fast Rest home" during 1945-1947 became popular and her stature as a major wind singer rosebush as a solution. For a time (Dec 10, 1947-August 28, 1953) she was marital to bassist Ray Brown and put-upon his third as a computer backup grouping. Fitzgerald's serial of duets with pianoforte player Ellis Larkins in 1950 (a 1954 encore with Larkins was a successful followup) launch her rendition Saint George George Gershwin songs, predating her upcoming
Songbooks series.
Subsequently on coming into court in the photographic film
Pete Kelly's Megrims in 1955, Ella Fitzgerald signed with Norman Granz's Vitality label and over the next few long time she would felon record extensive
Songbooks of the music of Colewort William Sydney Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers & Stag, Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington, Harold Arlen, Eusebius Hieronymus Jerome David Kern, and Rebel John Mercer. Although (with the exception of the Duke Ellington sets) those were not her virtually jazz-oriented projects (Edward I Ella Fitzgerald stuck in general to the melody and was broadly accompanied by string orchestras), the prestigious projects did a chapiter distribute to uplift her stature. At the point of her powers around 1960, Fitzgerald's hilarious lively version of "Mackintosh the Knife" (in which she forgot the language and made up her possess) from
Ella in Berlin is a classic and almost wholly of her Vitality recordings ar charles Frederick Worth getting.
Fitzgerald's Capitol Building and Reprize recordings of 1967-1970 ar not on the lapp class as she attempted to "update" her vocalizing by including bolt polish songs such as "Cheery" and "I Heard It Through the Grape vine," sounding rather sappy in the process. Just Fitzgerald's by and by years were saved by Norman Granz's decision to shape a freshly mark, Pablo. Starting with a Santa Monica Civic concert in 1972 that is climaxed by Fitzgerald's unbelievable translation of "C Block Blues" (in which she trades off with and "battles" five definitive jazzmen), Edward Fitzgerald was showcased in malarky settings end-to-end the 1970s with the likes of Matter Basie, Academy Award Peterson, and Joe Overhaul, among others. Her vox began to fade during this era and by the 1980s her go down imputable to historic period was quite a obtrusive. Troubles with her eyes and bosom knocked her come out of the closet of action for periods of time, although her increasingly rare appearances found Edward Fitzgerald tranquil retaining her sense of swing over and joyful stylus. By 1994, Ella Fitzgerald was in retreat and she passed away deuce age subsequently, only she remains a house identify and slews of her recordings ar easy available on CD.
