Ella Fitzgerald
D Ella Jane Fitzgerald  (* 25. April 1917 z Newport News, Virginia, USA; † 15. Juni 1996 z Beverly Hills, Kalifornie, USA) isch en amerikanischi Dschäässängere gsi. Si isch as  "First Lady of Song" und  "Queen of Jazz" bezäichnet worde.  Si het e Stimmunmfang vo drei Oktave gha und isch berüemt gsi für d Räinhäit vom Doon, für iiri perfekti Dikzioon, Frasierig und Intonazioon. Si het hervorraagend chönne improwisiere, vor allem bim Scat.

D Fitzgerald isch e bekannti Interpretun vom Great American Songbook, wo vili vo de beste Songs vo dr amerikanische Unterhaltigsmuusig vo de 1930er bis 1960er Joor umfasst. Iiri Karriere isch 59 Joor lang gsi und in dere Zit het si me as 70 Album uusegee und  40 Millione Exemplar verchauft. Si het 13 Grammy Awards überchoo, d National Medal of Arts vom Ronald Reagan und die Presidential Medal of Freedom vom George H. W. Bush.

Diskografii (Uswaal) 

 1938 – A-Tisket, A-Tasket (erster Single-Hiterfolg mit Chick Webb)
 1944 – I’m Making Believe (Nummer-eins-Hit mit The Ink Spots)
 1950 – Ella Sings Gershwin
 1954 – Lullabies of Birdland
 1954 – Songs in a Mellow Mood
 1955 – Songs from “Pete Kelly’s Blues”
 1955 – The First Lady Of Song (Decca)
 1956 – [[Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook|Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 1 und Vol. 2]]
 1956 – Ella and Louis 1956 – Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook 1957 – Ella and Louis Again 1957 – Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook 1957 – Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House 1957 – Like Someone in Love 1957 – Porgy and Bess 1958 – Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport 1958 – Ella Swings Lightly 1958 – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook 1959 – Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book 1960 – Ella Fitzgerald sings Songs from the Soundtrack of Let No Man Write My Epitaph 1960 – Ella in Berlin: Mack The Knife 1960 – Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas 1961 – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook  1961 - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (Verve)
 1962 – Ella Swings brightly with Nelson 1962 – Ella Swings gently with Nelson 1963 – Ella Sings Broadway 1963 – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook 1963 – On the Sunny Side of the Street – Ella and Basie 1963 – These Are the Blues (Verve)
 1964 – Hello, Dolly! (Verve)
 1964 – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook 1965 – Ella at Duke’s Place 1965 – Ella in Hamburg (Verve)
 1967 – Whisper Not 1967 – Brighten the Corner (Capitol Records)
 1967 – Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas (Capitol Records)
 1968 – 30 by Ella (Capitol Records)
 1968 – Misty Blue (Capitol Records)
 1969 – Sunshine of Your Love (Capitol Records)
 1969 – Ella (Reprise Records)
 1970 – Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (Reprise Records)
 1971 - Ella A Nice (Pablo)
 1972 – Ella Loves Cole (Atlantic Records)
 1973 – Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia Records)
 1973 - Take Love Easy (Pablo)
 1974 - Fine And Mellow (Pablo)
 1974 – Ella in London (Pablo)
 1974 – Ella and Oscar (Pablo)
 1975 – At the Montreux Festival (Pablo)
 1977 - With The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Montreux '77 (Pablo)
 1978 – Dream Dancing 1980 – Ella Abraça Jobim | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook 1990 – All That Jazz Filmografii 

 1942: Helden im Sattel (Ride ’Em Cowboy) … as Ruby
 1952: All Star Summer Revue (TV)
 1955: Es geschah in einer Nacht (Pete Kelly’s Blues) … as Maggie Jackson
 1958: St. Louis Blues 1960: Let No Man Write My Epitaph … as Flora
 1966: All My Life … as Vocalist
 1980: The White Shadow (TV) … as Maxine Jefferies

 Litratuur 

 Rainer Nolden: Ella Fitzgerald: ihr Leben, ihre Musik, ihre Schallplatten. Oreos, Gauting 1986, ISBN 3-923657-15-3.
 Stuart Nicholson: Ella – die Stimme des Jazz. Bertelsmann, Münche 1993, ISBN 3-570-02340-0.
 Jim Haskins: Ella Fitzgerald – First Lady Of Jazz. Heyne, Münche 1994, ISBN 3-453-07545-5.
 Leslie Gourse The Ella Fitzgerald Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary.'' Schirmer, New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-8256-7179-1.

Weblingg 

 Offizielli Website vo dr Ella Fitzgerald (änglisch)
 
 Biografie, Diskografie und News bei JazzEcho
 Ella Fitzgerald Complete Discography altervista.org
 Zum Tode Ella Fitzgeralds Noochruef (Die Zeit, 1996)

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