Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1953, due to the various career pressures both were experiencing at the time, though they would continue to perform together. [42][56] Fitzgerald's appearance with Sinatra and Count Basie in June 1974 for a series of concerts at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, was seen as an important incentive for Sinatra to return from his self-imposed retirement of the early 1970s. Born: 25 April 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. It was a turning point in my life."[9]. Her, This page was last edited on 21 May 2021, at 01:07. [8], Fitzgerald listened to jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and The Boswell Sisters. Ihr Vater war Fahrer, er verließ die Familie kurz nach der Geburt und starb ein Jahr später. [3] The idea of entire duet album came about from Verve's Norman Granz who had the idea to pair Fitzgerald and Armstrong. [29] Producer Norman Granz became her manager in the mid-1940s after she began singing for Jazz at the Philharmonic, a concert series begun by Granz. [14] When the orphanage proved too crowded, she was moved to the New York Training School for Girls, a state reformatory school in Hudson, New York. The backing group remained the same except for Buddy Rich's role being taken by Louie Bellson;[1] Bellson is regarded as one of the greatest drummers in history right alongside Rich by critics.[6]. 1, We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song, You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart). There are several live albums on Verve that are highly regarded by critics. Her extensive cookbook collection was donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, and her extensive collection of published sheet music was donated to UCLA. In addition to her work with Webb, Fitzgerald performed and recorded with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Each release earned both commercial and critical success. The Song Book series ended up becoming the singer's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful work, and probably her most significant offering to American culture. As a result, they were stranded in Honolulu for three days before they could get another flight to Sydney. Ella in Rome and Twelve Nights in Hollywood display her vocal jazz canon. It featured artists such as Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, k.d. Ella in Berlin is still one of her best-selling albums; it includes a Grammy-winning performance of "Mack the Knife" in which she forgets the lyrics but improvises magnificently to compensate. [69] In 1954 on her way to one of her concerts in Australia she was unable to board the Pan American flight due to racial discrimination. The sets are the most well-known items in her discography. ELLA FITZGERALD TRIBUTE: Five of Ella Fitzgerald's finest albums. Like Fitzgerald, Armstrong picked up popular nicknames, in his case "Pops" and "Satchmo", that stuck, and critics praised him by the 1950s as a sort of elder statesman of popular music. [3] Her half-sister, Frances da Silva, was born in 1923. [80] Across town at the University of Southern California, she received the USC "Magnum Opus" Award which hangs in the office of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. "[62] Her funeral was private,[62] and she was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, CA. Fitzgerald had a number of famous jazz musicians and soloists as sidemen over her long career. She worked as a lookout at a bordello and with a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner. [6], Starting in third grade, Fitzgerald loved dancing and admired Earl Snakehips Tucker. At the Opera House shows a typical Jazz at the Philharmonic set from Fitzgerald. In the early 1920s, Fitzgerald's mother and her new partner, a Portuguese immigrant named Joseph da Silva,[3] moved to Yonkers, in Westchester County, New York. [1] Two live tracks from those 1956 concerts would end up being released as album bonus material in the 1990s.[2]. She recorded several albums with piano accompaniment, but a guitar proved the perfect melodic foil for her. She was also frequently featured on The Ed Sullivan Show. A bust of Fitzgerald is on the campus of Chapman University in Orange, California. [citation needed], Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing, and the UCLA Medal (1987). The surprise success of the 1972 album Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 led Granz to found Pablo Records, his first record label since the sale of Verve. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. [50], Fitzgerald also appeared in TV commercials, her most memorable being an ad for Memorex. Fitzgerald had suffered from diabetes for several years of her later life, which had led to numerous complications. The artists were both widely known icons not just in the areas of big band, jazz, and swing music but across 20th century popular music in general. [51] The stamp was released in April 2007 as part of the Postal Service's Black Heritage series. [4], Ella and Louis Again, which features nineteen songs, primarily consists as a collection of vocal duets like its predecessor. [12] She never talked publicly about this time in her life. Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an African-American jazz vocalist often referred to by honorific nicknames such as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz". In the 1950s, the depth and scope of her many releases had already attracted major attention. She performed for her peers on the way to school and at lunchtime. "[53] Her last commercial campaign was for American Express, in which she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz. While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. Possibly Fitzgerald's greatest unrealized collaboration (in terms of popular music) was a studio or live album with Frank Sinatra. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. [19] She won the chance to perform at the Apollo for a week but, seemingly because of her disheveled appearance, the theater never gave her that part of her prize. [3] Her parents were unmarried but lived together in the East End section of Newport News[4] for at least two and a half years after she was born. lang, Queen Latifah, Ledisi, Dianne Reeves, Linda Ronstadt, and Lizz Wright, collating songs most readily associated with the "First Lady of Song". [25][26] While working for Decca Records, she had hits with Bill Kenny & the Ink Spots,[27] Louis Jordan,[28] and the Delta Rhythm Boys. Trumpet player Mario Bauzá, who played behind Fitzgerald in her early years with Chick Webb, remembered that "she didn't hang out much. Norman ... felt that I should do other things, so he produced Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book with me. The theater is located several blocks away from her birthplace on Marshall Avenue. Although a contemporary Australian press report[32] quoted an Australian Pan-Am spokesperson who denied that the incident was racially based, Fitzgerald, Henry, Lewis and Granz filed a civil suit for racial discrimination against Pan-Am in December 1954[33] and in a 1970 television interview Fitzgerald confirmed that they had won the suit and received what she described as a "nice settlement". [4] Granz, who founded the record label Verve in 1956, is known as "one of the most powerful non-musicians in jazz" history. [8], The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington: The Great Summit/Complete Sessions. * Bluebird 07863 66528-2 Dizzy Gillespie - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings * Victor 26371; His Master's Voice (Swi) JK 2172, (Swd) X 6572; Blue Ace 234 Lionel Hampton - When Lights Are Low / Hot Mallets * His Master's Voice (E) B 9750, (F) SG 288 Lionel Hampton - When Lights Are Low / Central Avenue Breakdown * Victor 26393; His Master's Voice (E) B 9027, (Swi) JK 2240, (F) K 8432 … Callaway's album To Ella with Love (1996) features fourteen jazz standards made popular by Fitzgerald, and the album also features the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Though the relationship ended after a year, Fitzgerald regularly returned to Denmark over the next three years and even considered buying a jazz club there. In tribute, the marquee read: "Ella We Will Miss You. [11], Fitzgerald began skipping school, and her grades suffered. The statue's location is one of 14 tour stops on the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County. Bridgewater's following album, Live at Yoshi's, was recorded live on April 25, 1998, what would have been Fitzgerald's 81st birthday. 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. Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Fitzgerald and Pass appeared together on the albums, Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington recorded two live albums and two studio albums. 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Atteberry, Listen to Big Band Serenade podcast, episode 6, Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph", Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book, Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It), Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport, Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall, The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve, Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. [citation needed]. [76], The primary collections of Fitzgerald's media and memorabilia reside at and are shared between the Smithsonian Institution and the US Library of Congress[77], Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammy Awards,[78] and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. Tempie heiratete später Joseph „Joe“ da Silva. In 1997, Newport News, Virginia created a week-long music festival with Christopher Newport University to honor Fitzgerald in her birth city. Marsalis has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Verve Records was sold to MGM in 1963 for $3 million and in 1967 MGM failed to renew Fitzgerald's contract. Coming to prominence first as an inventive player, Armstrong attracted notice for shifting the focus in his records from collective improvisations to turn-by-turn solo performances.
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