Ella Fitzgerald - Spotlight on Ella Fitzgerald '2021

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Album name	Spotlight on Ella Fitzgerald
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Date	2021
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Its A Lovely Day Today
02. Blue Skies
03. Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Single Version)
04. Someone To Watch Over Me
05. Night And Day
06. Too Marvelous For Words
07. They All Laughed
08. Body And Soul
09. In A Mellow Tone
10. Cheek To Cheek
11. Ive Got A Crush On You
12. A Night In Tunisia
13. All The Things You Are
14. Love Is Here To Stay
15. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered (Stereo Version)
16. Miss Otis Regrets (Shes Unable To Lunch Today)
17. Lets Call The Whole Thing Off
18. Mack The Knife (Live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 1960)
19. Shiny Stockings
20. Skylark
21. Nice Work If You Can Get It
22. I Get A Kick Out Of You
23. Satin Doll (1956 Version)
24. Blues In The Night
25. In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
26. The Nearness Of You
27. You Leave Me Breathless
28. Lets Fall In Love
29. Puttin On The Ritz
30. Oh, Lady Be Good (Live At Shrine Auditorium/1957)
31. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
32. I Got Rhythm
33. My Funny Valentine (Stereo Version)
34. They Cant Take That Away From Me
35. Misty
36. In The Still Of The Night
37. Take The A Train
38. Tea For Two
39. Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive (Live At The Crescendo)
40. Anything Goes
41. My Romance (Stereo Version)
42. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
43. Sophisticated Lady
44. Autumn In New York
45. Isnt It Romantic? (Stereo Version)
46. Angel Eyes
47. Passion Flower
48. (Youll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini (Live At The Crescendo, 1961)
49. How High The Moon (Live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 1960)
50. Signing Off


Â Read Full BiographyBorn in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, Fitzgerald grew
up in a working-class family in Yonkers, New York. Her parents split up soon
after her birth, and she was largely raised by her mother, Temperance Tempie
Fitzgerald, and her mothers boyfriend Joseph Joe Da Silva. She also had a
younger half-sister, Frances, who was born in 1923. To help with the familys
finances, Fitzgerald often worked odd jobs including, at times, running bet
money for local gamblers. By her teens, the self-professed tomboy was active in
sports and often played in local baseball games. Influenced by her mother, she
also enjoyed singing and dancing, and spent many hours singing along to records
by Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, and the Boswell Sisters. She also began taking
the train to see shows with friends at Harlems Apollo Theater. In 1932, her
mother died from injuries sustained in a car accident. Deeply distraught over
the loss, Fitzgerald went through a difficult period that found her skipping
school and getting in trouble with the police. She was subsequently sent to a
reform school, where she endured abuse by her caretakers. Eventually breaking
free from the reformatory, she found herself on her own in New York during the
height of the Great Depression. Despite her struggles, she worked to pursue her
love of performing. In 1934, she entered and won an amateur contest at the
Apollo, singing Hoagy Carmichaels Judy in the style of her idol, Connee Boswell.
In the house band that night was saxophonist Benny Carter, who took the young
vocalist under his wing and encouraged her to keep developing her career.

More contests followed, and in 1935 Fitzgerald won a weeklong spot singing with
Tiny Bradshaw at the Harlem Opera House. There, she met influential drummer
Chick Webb, who agreed to try her out with his orchestra at a one-nighter at
Yale University. She won the crowd over, and spent the next few years with the
drummer, who became her legal guardian and reworked his show to feature the
singer. The bands fame grew exponentially with Fitzgerald, as they dominated at
the Savoy battle of the bands, and issued a string of Decca 78s, scoring hits A
Tisket-A-Tasket, in 1938, and the B-side Taint What You Do (Its the Way That You
Do It), as well as Liza, and Undecided. As the singers career was on the rise,
Webbs health had begun to decline. Though only in his thirties, the drummer, who
had struggled with congenital spinal tuberculosis throughout his life, would
purportedly collapse from exhaustion after playing a set. Nonetheless, he forged
onwards, hoping to keep his band working through the Depression. In 1939, not
long after undergoing major surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
Maryland, Webb died. Following his death, Fitzgerald continued to front his band
with much success until 1941, when she decided to pursue a solo career.

Ella Sings GershwinSticking with Decca, Fitzgerald was teamed with the Ink
Spots, Louis Jordan, and the Delta Rhythm Boys for several best-sellers, and in
1946 began working regularly for manager Norman Granzs Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Though often regarded as a pop vocalist during her time with Webb, Fitzgerald
had begun to experiment with scat singing, a sound she further developed during
these years. She toured with Dizzy Gillespies big band, and soon adopted bebop
as an integral part of her style, punctuating her live sets with
instrumental-style scat solos that wowed audiences and earned her respect from
her fellow musicians. Her recordings of Lady Be Good, How High the Moon, and
Flying Home during 1945-1947 were released to great acclaim and helped solidify
her stature as a major jazz vocalist. It was while working with Gillespie that
she met and married bassist Ray Brown, living with him from 1947 to 1953, during
which time she often performed with his trio. The couple also adopted a son, Ray
Brown, Jr., (born to Fitzgeralds half-sister Frances in 1949) who would go on to
his own career as a pianist and vocalist. In 1951, the singer paired with
pianist Ellis Larkins for the duets album Ella Sings Gershwin, on which she
interpreted George Gershwin songs, prefiguring her later Songbooks series.

Ella and LouisAfter appearing in the film Pete Kellys Blues in 1955, Fitzgerald
signed with Norman Granzs Verve label. Her longtime manager, Granz had
specifically launched Verve with the sole purpose of better showcasing her
voice. Beginning with 1956s Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, she would record an
extensive series of Songbooks albums, interpreting the music of the Great
American Songbook composers, including Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin,
Rodgers & Hart, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer.
The prestigious albums, which earned Fitzgerald her first four Grammys at the
1959 and 1958 Grammy Awards, further raised her stature as one of the great
singers of all time. Other soon-to-be-classic albums followed, including her
1956 pairing with Louis Armstrong Ella & Louis, 1957s Like Someone in Love, and
1958s Porgy and Bess with Armstrong. Also under Granzs guidance, Fitzgerald
toured often, issuing a handful of highly regarded live concert albums. Among
them, 1960s Ella in Berlin included her off-the-cuff take on Mack the Knife in
which she forgot the lyrics and improvised her own. One of the best-selling
albums of her career, Ella in Berlin earned her Grammy Awards for Best Vocal
Performance Single Record or Track, Female, and Best Vocal Performance Album,
Female. The album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Brighten the CornerVerve was sold to MGM in 1963, and by 1967 Fitzgerald found
herself without a contract. She spent the next few years recording for a number
of labels like Capitol, Atlantic and Reprise. Her albums during these years also
found her updating her repertoire with modern pop and rock songs such as Creams
Sunshine of Your Love and the Beatles Hey Jude. She sang traditional hymns on
1967s Brighten the Corner, while 1969s Ella included her last U.S. chart single
with a cover of Smokey Robinsons Get Ready. Nonetheless, Fitzgerald remained an
immensely popular and highly regarded performer. In 1967, she was bestowed with
the Bing Crosby Award (later named the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award) at the
10th Annual Grammy Awards.

Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic, 72However, her later years were again marked by
the influence of Granz after he founded the independent Pablo Records. A concert
album, Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic 72, featuring Fitzgerald, pianist Tommy
Flanagan, and the Count Basie Orchestra, gained popularity via mail-order sales
and helped Granz launch the label. More albums followed throughout the 70s and
80s, many pairing the singer with artists like Basie, Oscar Peterson, and Joe
Pass, among others. While diabetes affected her eyes and heart during this
period, forcing her to take breaks from performing, Fitzgerald always retained
her joyful style, and exuberant sense of swing. Away from the stage, she was
committed to helping disadvantaged youth, and made contributions to various
charity organizations. In 1979, she was honored with a Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award. Also, in 1987, President Ronald Reagan
awarded her the National Medal of Arts. More accolades followed, including a
Commander of Arts and Letters award from France, and numerous honorary
doctorates from Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and other institutions. Following a
concert at New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 1991, she retired from her career.
Fitzgerald passed away on June 15, 1996, at her home in Beverly Hills,
California. In the decades following her death, Fitzgeralds reputation as one of
the most influential and recognizable figures in jazz and popular music only
increased. She remains a household name around the world, and has received a
number of posthumous accolades, including four Hall of Fame Grammys and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. ~ Matt Collar