StayJack artist file
Ella Fitzgerald
1917 — 1996
Voice
SwingVocal JazzBebop
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A short portrait
Fitzgerald combined exact pitch, buoyant time and a remarkable instinct for a lyric's emotional temperature. Her improvising voice could be as rhythmically inventive as any horn.
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Timeline
Wins an amateur-night appearance at the Apollo Theater.
A-Tisket, A-Tasket becomes her first major popular success.
Begins the celebrated songbook series and records Ella and Louis.
Live recordings document her wit and command before international audiences.
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Essential records
MG V-4003
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
EllaandLouis
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella and Louis
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Selected listening
Ella and Louis
An official Spotify embed, selected as a place to begin.