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Ella Fitzgerald Powerpoint February 2021

Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz". She grew up in Harlem and was discovered after winning Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater. She joined bandleader Chick Webb's band and found success with the song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket". After Webb's death, Fitzgerald had a successful solo career and became known for her scat singing. Over her career, she collaborated with many jazz greats and won numerous awards, establishing herself as one of the most influential jazz singers.

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Ella Fitzgerald Powerpoint February 2021

Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer known as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz". She grew up in Harlem and was discovered after winning Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater. She joined bandleader Chick Webb's band and found success with the song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket". After Webb's death, Fitzgerald had a successful solo career and became known for her scat singing. Over her career, she collaborated with many jazz greats and won numerous awards, establishing herself as one of the most influential jazz singers.

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Artist of the Week

February is Black History Month


Ella Fitzgerald
Is It Ella Or Is It Memorex?
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Ella Fitzgerald
• Born April 25, 1917 in Virginia
• Died June 15, 1996 in California (aged 79)
• American jazz singer often known as the “First Lady
of Song” and the “Queen of Jazz”.
• She was highly regarded for her purity of tone,
impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and her
improvisation as a scat singer.
• Ella grew up Harlem (New York) singing in church.
Her first performance at Amateur Night at the Apollo
Theater caught the attention of drummer and
bandleader Chick Webb.
Ella Fitzgerald
• In 1935, Chick Webb asked Ella to join his
band.
• She recorded many successful songs with Chick
Webb including “A-Tisket A-Tasket”, which
really launched her career as a singer. It sold 1
million copies!
• After Chick Webb died in 1939, Ella took
leadership of the band but left the group in
1942 to start a solo career.
Ella Fitzgerald

• It was also in the 1940s that Ella started to


include more scat singing in her music.
• Her 1945 scat recording of “Flying Home” is
considered one the most influential vocal jazz
recordings of the decade.
A-Tisket, A-Tasket from Abbot and Costello’s
Ride ’em Cowboy (1942)
Ella Fitzgerald
• In 1954, Ella toured Australia with Artie Shaw
and Buddy Rich.
• In 1955, she began collaborating with many
other jazz musicians including Frank Sinatra,
Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,
Dean Martin, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Torme, and
others.
• Also in the 1950s and early 1960s, Ella
performed on numerous TV shows and movies.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
It Don’t Mean A Thing
Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella Fitzgerald won 14 Grammy Awards, the
National Medal for the Arts, the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, a Kennedy Center Honor
Award, George and Ira Gershwin Award, Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award, and others.
• She has also been honored with commemorative
Postage Stamps, music festivals in her name, and
several theaters have been named after her.
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Read by Maria Valdes
Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme’ Improvised
Scat Singing
The End

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