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.

For:Jazz fans, students of the Great American Songbook, vocalists studying technique

 Ella Fitzgerald was without a doubt one of the greatest singers of all time, both white and black, and she is especially universally recognized as the absolute queen of jazz vocals.

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 In 1981, Norman Granz, Ella Fitzgerald's producer and founder of the record label Pablo in 1973, as well as the man, in my opinion, who more than anyone promoted jazz worldwide, writes a note for the album "Ella abraca Jobim" where he expresses his personal love for this album which he considers to be "Fitzgerald's best, the most exciting and explosive."

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