New York: Citadel Press, Gourse, Leslie. New York: Schirmer Books, Kliment, Bud. Ella Fitzgerald Black Americans of Achievement. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, Krohn, Katherine E. Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song. Minneapolis: Lerner, Nicholson, Stuart.
New York: Scribner, Wyman, Carolyn. Ella Fitzgerald: Jazz Singer Supreme. Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts, Toggle navigation. Touring the world Under Granz's personal management Fitzgerald also began to play choice hotel jobs and made her first feature film appearance in Pete Kelly's Blues The legacy of Ella Was Ella Fitzgerald essentially a jazz singer or a pop singer? User Contributions: 1. This article gave me lots of info about Ella, thanx to whomever wrote this she was a legend and may she be rested n peace by the lord almighty himself.
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: Name:. E-mail: Show my email publicly. Human Verification:. The marriage ended in The s and s proved to be a time of great critical and commercial success for Fitzgerald, and she earned the moniker "First Lady of Song" for her mainstream popularity and unparalleled vocal talents. Her unique ability to mimic instrumental sounds helped popularize the vocal improvisation of scatting, which became her signature technique.
In , Fitzgerald began recording for the newly created Verve. At the very first Grammy Awards in , Fitzgerald picked up her first two Grammys — and made history as the first African American woman to win the award — for best individual jazz performance and best female vocal performance for the two songbook projects Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book and Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book , respectively.
She worked directly with Ellington on the former album. A truly collaborative soul, Fitzgerald produced great recordings with such artists as Louis Armstrong and Count Basie. She also performed several times with Frank Sinatra over the years as well. In , Fitzgerald broke into the pop charts with her rendition of "Mack the Knife. One especially memorable concert series from this time was a two-week engagement in New York City in with Sinatra and Basie. By the s, Fitzgerald experienced serious health problems.
She had heart surgery in and had been suffering from diabetes. The disease left her blind, and she had both legs amputated in She made her last recording in and her last public performance in at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Fitzgerald died on June 15, , at her home in Beverly Hills. In all, Fitzgerald recorded more than albums and some 2, songs in her lifetime. Her total record sales exceeded 40 million. While some critics complained that her style and voice lacked the depth of some her more bluesy counterparts, her success and the respect she garnered from the biggest names in the music industry showed that Fitzgerald was in a class all her own. Mel Torme described her as "the High Priestess of Song" and Pearl Bailey called her "the greatest singer of them all," according to Fitzgerald's official website.
And Bing Crosby once said, "Man, woman or child, Ella is the greatest of them all. Since her passing, Fitzgerald has been honored and remembered in many ways. The United States Postal Service honored the late singer with a commemorative stamp celebrating the 90th anniversary of her birth. We strive for accuracy and fairness. She soon became a recording star with the band, and her own composition "A-tisket, A-tasket" was such a smash hit that the song became her trademark for many years thereafter.
When Webb died in , Fitzgerald assumed leadership of the band for the next year. By Fitzgerald was recognized throughout the music world as a vocal marvel—a singer with clarity of tone, flexibility of range, fluency of rhythm, and, above all, a talent for improvisation that was equally effective on ballads and up-tempo tunes.
Although for a long time her reputation with musicians and other singers outstripped that with the general public, she corrected the imbalance soon after joining Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic JATP in She made annual tours with the group and was invariably the concert favorite.
The huge JATP crowds always responded tumultuously. By the early s Fitzgerald's domination of fans' and critics' polls was absolute. In fact, she won the Down Beat readers' poll every year from to and became known as "The First Lady of Song. The lush orchestrations induced Fitzgerald to display the classy pop-singer side of herself; even in the two-volume Ellington set her jazzier side deferred to the melodist in her. Under Granz's personal management Fitzgerald also began to play choice hotel jobs and made her first featured film appearance, in "Pete Kelly's Blues" In , in the company of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, she gave a concert at Carnegie Hall as part of an extended European and United States tour with the band.
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