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Ella in Japan didn't exist until its release by Verve about a week ago. For years, the Norman Granz project known merely as Ella in Nippon wasn't part of Ella Fitzgerald's vast discography. That's ...
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. At the age of two her family joined the “Great Migration” of Southern blacks to the industrial cities of the North, eventually ...
Jazz Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi’s (Verve). Marlon Brando loved her. But then who didn’t? And doesn’t? But Brando showed up for Ella Fitzgerald’s three-week gig at Zardi’s Jazzland in ...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook became a hit that expanded her audience beyond just jazz lovers and paved the way for eight albums she recorded, each celebrating a different ...
Verve Records announces the release of a never-before-heard stellar live recording from the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. The Lost Berlin Tapes were recorded – incredibly in both mono and ...
Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong Go 'Cheek To Cheek' On A 4-Disc Set Fitzgerald's warm, yet ultra-cool voice was at the opposite pole of jazz singing from Armstrong's gravelly growl.
In “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song,” Judith Tick recounts, almost concert by concert, how Fitzgerald was thrown straight into the deep end.
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