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Author: Grace Hansen Publisher: Abdo Kids Jumbo ISBN: 9781680801248 Category : African American jazz musicians Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Birth & Early Life -- The Apollo -- Fame! -- Death & Legacy -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Index -- Abdo Kids Code
Author: Grace Hansen Publisher: Abdo Kids Jumbo ISBN: 9781680801248 Category : African American jazz musicians Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Birth & Early Life -- The Apollo -- Fame! -- Death & Legacy -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Index -- Abdo Kids Code
Author: Grace Hansen Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 1680802364 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 27
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Ella Fitzgerald went from a poor girl living on the streets to the one of the greatest Jazz singers of her time and ours. This title will take readers through the grand life of Ella and show them that nothing can hold you back if you have a dream and determination. Complete with a timeline and wonderful historical photographs.
Author: Stuart Nicholson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136788131 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 339
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Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and new information, Nicholson draws a complete picture of Fitzgerald's professional and personal life. Fitzgerald rose from being a pop singer with chart-novelty hits in the late '30s to become a bandleader and then one of the greatest interpreters of American popular song. Along with Billie Holiday, she virtually defined the female voice in jazz, and countless others followed in her wake and acknowledged her enormous influence. Also includes two 8-page inserts.
Author: Megan Schoeneberger Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 9780736837422 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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Provides an introduction to the life and biography of the African American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who recorded more than 200 albums and performed at Carnegie Hall 26 times.
Author: Katherine E. Krohn Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 9780822549338 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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A biography of the celebrated jazz singer, known especially for her scat singing and "songbook" recordings of the works of many major American composers.
Author: Helen Hancocks Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 1786031256 Category : Languages : en Pages : 35
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Ella Fitzgerald sang the blues and she sang them good. Ella and her fellas were on the way up! It seemed like nothing could stop her, until the biggest club in town refused to let her play... and all because of her colour. But when all hope seemed lost, little did Ella imagine that a Hollywood star would step in to help. This is the incredible true story of how a remarkable friendship between Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe was born - and how they worked together to overcome prejudice and adversity. An inspiring story, strikingly illustrated, about the unlikely friendship between two celebrated female icons of America's golden age.
Author: Judith Tick Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393242021 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 439
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An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school—where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury. Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre’s mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella’s transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre. From the singer’s first performance at the Apollo Theatre’s famous “Amateur Night” to the Savoy Ballroom, where Fitzgerald broke through with Chick Webb’s big band in the 1930s, Tick evokes the jazz world in riveting detail. She describes how Ella helped shape the bebop movement in the 1940s, as she joined Dizzy Gillespie and her then-husband, Ray Brown, in the world-touring Jazz at the Philharmonic, one of the first moments of high-culture acceptance for the disreputable art form. Breaking ground as a female bandleader, Fitzgerald refuted expectations of musical Blackness, deftly balancing artistic ambition and market expectations. Her legendary exploration of the Great American Songbook in the 1950s fused a Black vocal aesthetic and jazz improvisation to revolutionize the popular repertoire. This hybridity often confounded critics, yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ella reached audiences around the world, electrifying concert halls, and sold millions of records. A masterful biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald describes a powerful woman who set a standard for American excellence nearly unmatched in the twentieth century.
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney Publisher: ISBN: 9781439591604 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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"Scat Cat Monroe" narrates a celebration of the life and career of the first lady of song, noting her distinctive style and far-ranging impact upon contemporary music.
Author: Grace Hansen
Author: Grace Hansen
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