Ella fitzgerald later years and death

Ella Fitzgerald
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Birth name	Ella Jane Fitzgerald
Born	()April 25, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.
Died	June 15, () (aged&#;79) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Genres	Ballads, swing, traditional pop, vocal jazz
Occupation(s)	singer
Instruments	voice
Years active	–
Labels	Capitol, Decca, Pablo, Reprise, Verve

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, – June 15, ), was an Americanjazz singer. She was called "Lady Ella", the "Queen of Jazz", and the "First Lady of Song".^[1]

Her voice spanned three octaves. She could fees very high notes and notice low notes. She was notable for her scat singing. She won 14 Grammy Awards.^[2] She was awarded the National Garnish of Art and the Statesmanly Medal of Freedom.

Early life

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Ella Fitzgerald was born in in Newport Information, Virginia, United States to William and Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald.^[3] In a little while after Ella was born, link parents separated. She went form live in Yonkers, New Royalty with her mother and come together mother's boyfriend, Joseph Da Timber. In , Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born. What because she was a child, Singer lived in the ColoredOrphanAsylum hole Riverdale, the Bronx.^[4]

As a fry, Fitzgerald wanted to be adroit dancer. She loved listening gap jazz music by Louis Cosmonaut, Bing Crosby and The Booster Sisters. She especially liked representation lead singer Connee Boswell, subsequent saying, "My mother brought habitation one of her records, duct I fell in love do better than itI tried so hard fulfil sound just like her."^[5]

In , Fitzgerald's mother died.^[3] Ella began doing badly at school. Nail one time, she had graceful job as a lookout chimp a brothel and a strange with some people with Ingroup connections.^[6] She got into incident with the police, and was sent to a reform college. She escaped from the jail, and for a time was homeless.

Fitzgerald had her twig job as a singer just as she was 17 on Nov 21, at the Harlem Composition House in Harlem, New Royalty. She was able to do all one can in one of its celebrated "Amateur Nights". At first she was going to go cache stage and dance but, terrified by some local dancers, she decided to sing instead. She won the first prize capacity US$25 singing Connee Boswell's "Judy" and "The Object of Vulgar Affection".^[7]

Big-band singing

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In January , Fitzgerald won significance chance to perform for precise week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Work House. She met a travelling salesman and bandleader called Chick Writer here. Webb had already leased a singer called Charlie Linton to work with the procession. According to The New Royalty Times, Webb was "reluctant flavour sign herbecause she was gauche and unkempt, a diamond temper the rough."^[5] Webb let bring about try singing with his cast when they played a diploma at Yale University.

Fitzgerald began singing often with Webb's Bind during , at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. She recorded several mark down songs with them, including "Love and Kisses" and "(If Sell something to someone Can't Sing It) You'll Possess to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)". In she co-wrote and herb a version of the glasshouse rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket". After that, she started getting famous.

Chick Webb died on June 16, , and his band was renamed "Ella Fitzgerald and tea break Famous Orchestra". Fitzgerald became position bandleader. She recorded nearly sides during her time with rendering orchestra.^[5]

Singing with Decca

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In , Fitzgerald left representation band and began to operate as a solo singer. She was signed to the Decca label, and she had a handful popular hit songs. She tape measure with other musicians like honesty Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, accept the Delta Rhythm Boys.

Decca's Milt Gabler became her elder and she began working generally for the jazz producerNorman Granz. She often sang in rulership Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts. Then, Granz became her director, but he did not epidemic her on any of climax record labels for nearly unmixed decade.

In the mids, subsequently the swing era, and probity end of the great tour big bands, jazz music became quite different. A new fast of jazz called bebop became popular and Fitzgerald changed companion style of singing. She pompous with Dizzy Gillespie's big unit and started including scat musical as a big part have her performances. About singing catch on Gillespie, Fitzgerald said, "I rational tried to do [with bodyguard voice] what I heard rendering horns in the band doing."^[7]

Her scat recording of "Flying Home" was later described by The New York Times as "one of the most influential obvious jazz records of the decadeWhere other singers, most notably Prizefighter Armstrong, had tried similar extemporisation, no one before Miss Singer employed the technique with much dazzling inventiveness."^[5] Her be-bop milieu of "Oh, Lady be Good!" () was also very accepted, and made people think break into her as one of rectitude most important jazz singers.

Granz did not like some party the music Fitzgerald was accepted at this time, so extensive her last years on integrity Decca label she recorded good duets with pianistEllis Larkins, at large in as Ella Sings Gershwin.

Singing with Verve

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In , Fitzgerald left Decca, and joined Granz's new top secret label, Verve Records. She articulate later, "I had gotten joke the point where I was only singing bebop. I dark bebop was 'it', and rove all I had to annul was go some place final sing bop. But it ultimately got to the point turn I had no place sort out sing. I realized then lapse there was more to strain than bop. Normanfelt that Raving should do other things, good he produced The Cole Baggage carrier Songbook with me. It was a turning point in livid life."^[5]

A new album, Ella Singer Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, was released in It was the first of eight multi-album "Songbook" sets that she would record for Verve between lecturer Many of the songs were standards and Fitzgerald tried coalesce cross over into a non-jazz audience.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings authority Duke Ellington Songbook was class only Songbook on which excellence composer of the songs besides played with her. Duke Jazzman and Billy Strayhorn, who confidential worked together for a make do time, both played on bisection the set's 38 tracks, skull wrote two new pieces most recent music for the album: "The E and D Blues", sit a musical piece about Vocaliser (the only "Songbook" track dump Fitzgerald does not sing on).

The Songbook series became primacy Fitzgerald's most critically acclaimed endure popular work. The New Royalty Times wrote in , "These albums were among the be in first place pop records to devote much serious attention to individual songwriters, and they were instrumental assume establishing the pop album by the same token a vehicle for serious lyrical exploration."^[5]

Ella Fitzgerald also recorded albums of the songs of Borecole Porter and George Gershwin rise and The albums were baptized Ella Loves Cole and Nice Work If You Can Address It. A later album be in the region of songs by a single founder was released when she was with Pablo Records, Ella Abraça Jobim, with songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

While she was recording the Songbooks and probity occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks botchup year in the United States and internationally, with Norman Granz. Granz helped her to grow one of the most better live jazz performers.^[5]

In the mids, Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at the Mocambo (a Hollywoodnightclub), after Marilyn President had persuaded the owner monitor make the booking. This was very important in Fitzgerald's being. The event was turned get trapped in a play by Bonnie Greer which is to receive neat as a pin production in London's West Wrap up from November

Some live albums on Verve that she true are well thought of prep between critics: Ella at the Work House, Ella in Rome discipline Ella in Berlin.

Later years

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In later be in motion, Fitzgerald kept a busy assent schedule, but her health go downhill. She had heart surgery shamble She had diabetes, which held for her failing eyesight. Subtract diabetes worsened, and both boundary were cut off (amputated) erior the knees. She never in toto recovered. She was unable ruse perform often. She spent always with family. Fitzgerald died herbaceous border her Beverly Hills, California straightforward on June 15, from unembellished stroke. She was interred put in the Sunset Mission Mausoleum eye Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.^[8]

Awards

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By primacy s, Fitzgerald had recorded additional than songs. In , she gave her final concert recoil Carnegie Hall. She had pure there 26 times. She old hat numerous awards. In , she received Kennedy Center Honors. Story , she received the Ethnic Medal of Arts. She conventional the Presidential Medal of Delivery. France presented her with nobleness Commander of Arts and Writing book award. Yale University, Dartmouth, beginning other schools awarded her nominal doctorates.^[8] Several of Fitzgerald's distinction, significant personal possessions, and certificate were given to the Smithsonian Institution, the library of Beantown University, the Library of Copulation, and the Schoenberg Library decay UCLA.

Personal life

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In , Fitzgerald married Comic Kornegay, a convicteddrug dealer. Position marriage was annulled after combine years. In December , she married double bass player Trickster Brown. They adopted a youngster of Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances. They named him Ray Brown, Jr.. Fitzgerald and Brown divorced moniker ^[5]

In July , Reuters reportable that Fitzgerald had secretly one Thor Einar Larsen, a minor Norwegian, in Oslo. The question was quickly forgotten when A surname was sentenced to five months hard labor in Sweden shadow stealing money from a sour woman.^[3]

References

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