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Happy 100th Birthday Ella!

They're playing Ella all day on WKCR. Go to wkcr.org

Ella Fitzgerald Birthday Broadcast

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Join WKCR Tuesday, April 25, 2017 for our first ever 24-hour Ella Fitzgerald birthday broadcast, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. On of the most influential jazz vocalists of the last century, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.In 1936, Fitzgerald made her first recording, "Love and Kisses," which was released under the Decca label, with moderate success. By this time she was performing with Chick's band at the prestigious Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, often referred to as "The World's Most Famous Ballroom."Shortly afterward, Fitzgerald began singing a rendition of the song, "(If You Can't Sing It) You Have to Swing It." During this time, the era of big swing bands was shifting, and the focus was turning more toward bebop. Fitzgerald played with the new style, often using her voice to take on the role of another horn in the band. "You Have to Swing It" was one of the first times she began experimenting with scat singing, and her improvisation and vocalization thrilled fans. Throughout her career, Fitzgerald would master scat singing, turning it into a form of art.In 1938, at the age of 21, Fitzgerald recorded a playful version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket." The album sold 1 million copies, hit number one, and stayed on the pop charts for 17 weeks, and this marks the beginning of her immense fame. In her later years, Fitzgerald continued to work as hard as she had early on in her career, despite the ill effects on her health. She toured all over the world, sometimes performing two shows a day in cities hundreds of miles apart. In 1974, she spent a legendary two weeks performing in New York with Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. Still going strong five years later, she was inducted into DownBeat Magazine’s Hall of Fame, and received Kennedy Center Honors for her continuing contributions to the arts. Join us in celebration of her work and life.
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BG's quartet and trio recordings from this era are killer. There is something about their sound that hasn't been reproduced. First off, no one plus lead clarinet anymore. That will slow things down.
Small group Goodman is the shit.
If you told me 25-30 years ago that I'd be a big fan of small group clarinet led jazz I would have laughed my ass off. Now? Love it.
 
Happy 100th Birthday Ella!

They're playing Ella all day on WKCR. Go to wkcr.org

Ella Fitzgerald Birthday Broadcast

ella.jpg


Join WKCR Tuesday, April 25, 2017 for our first ever 24-hour Ella Fitzgerald birthday broadcast, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday. On of the most influential jazz vocalists of the last century, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.In 1936, Fitzgerald made her first recording, "Love and Kisses," which was released under the Decca label, with moderate success. By this time she was performing with Chick's band at the prestigious Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, often referred to as "The World's Most Famous Ballroom."Shortly afterward, Fitzgerald began singing a rendition of the song, "(If You Can't Sing It) You Have to Swing It." During this time, the era of big swing bands was shifting, and the focus was turning more toward bebop. Fitzgerald played with the new style, often using her voice to take on the role of another horn in the band. "You Have to Swing It" was one of the first times she began experimenting with scat singing, and her improvisation and vocalization thrilled fans. Throughout her career, Fitzgerald would master scat singing, turning it into a form of art.In 1938, at the age of 21, Fitzgerald recorded a playful version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket." The album sold 1 million copies, hit number one, and stayed on the pop charts for 17 weeks, and this marks the beginning of her immense fame. In her later years, Fitzgerald continued to work as hard as she had early on in her career, despite the ill effects on her health. She toured all over the world, sometimes performing two shows a day in cities hundreds of miles apart. In 1974, she spent a legendary two weeks performing in New York with Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. Still going strong five years later, she was inducted into DownBeat Magazine’s Hall of Fame, and received Kennedy Center Honors for her continuing contributions to the arts. Join us in celebration of her work and life.
I'm not sure exactly what Ella I'll be spinning today, but it'll be something. If not some of the songbook stuff I'll jump on this WKCR business.
 
I listened to some of that WKCR stream that jgannon mentioned earlier.
I'll be pulling out some Ella vinyl later, probably starting with the Rogers and Hart songbook album, and then moving to one of the ones with Satch.

My accountant is due here in a bit to do my taxes though, so it'll probably happen later tonight.
He's all business. I can't see music on the stereo being helpful towards him completing the task, lol.
 
For my German friends, and everyone else here - Mack the Knife, Ella in Berlin. 12,000 people in the Deutschlandhallen, produced by Norman Granz.
Verve Stereo MGVS-64041 from 1960. As an added bonus for my wife, Mack the Knife is "our" song, as outlined on another thread. ;)

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Ella at the Opera House, Verve MGV-8264 from 1958. The Accompaniment: Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Lester Young, Flip Phillips, Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge, J.J. Johnson, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Jo Jones, and Connie Kay. WOW! Does it get any better than this?

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