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Ella Fitzgerald

Musician
Forjazz fans, students of the great american songbook, vocalists studying technique
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The Profile

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was an American jazz singer renowned for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, scat singing and her landmark "Songbook" recordings.

Long associated with producer/manager Norman Granz and Verve Records, Fitzgerald's Songbook series (1950s–1960s) is widely cited as a reference for interpreting American popular standards.

The reviews praise Ella Fitzgerald as a supreme jazz vocalist and an authoritative interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Her Verve "Songbook" series (Cole Porter, Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, etc.) is highlighted as essential listening. The Jobim/Antonio Carlos Jobim album receives a more mixed appraisal, noted as stylistically different from her classic Songbooks.

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