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This is my first post following the "Sunday Under the Cover" theme day, so I thought best bringing my dear Ella Fitzgerald covering Louis Armstrong's hit "Mack The Knife".
What you're listening here is the proof of her improvisation geniality (no wonder she got that Grammy award for this concert).
Although she messed around with the lyrics, Ella managed to elegantly take this song to the upper level.
One fine delight for a Sunday evening.
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I have no idea when it happened. It could have been before I moved to Alburtis in the early 80's but more than likely it happened all the while I was growing up. My family was Lutheran (religious, without being overtly religious) and they almost always voted Democrat (this is still a mystery, I would think my folks would be more in the Republican camp but hey what do I know). There are some that say you are born libertarian, while others say you come to the philosophy afte... MORE
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I always snatch up those albums from the 60's when they had legendary jazz or classics singers do covers of pop songs. Although they are often not the singer at a career high point they are always fun to listen to. Sometimes the artist is clearly trying to get through having to sing what they consider crap or else trying to adapt the song to his style and in the process butcher it. (Dean Martin's Hey Good Lookin' for example) But it is always wonderful to see an artist... MORE
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Shy in her personal life, Ella Fitzgerald had no fears in front of a microphone. When she used her three-octave range to interpret a standard, she didn't just sing another American pop song. She was raising the bar to a place where all other singers to come after her would be judged, and few have ascended to her status. Because Lady Ella could sing. One of my favorite standards, out of all the ones she recorded in the Great American Songbook series, is Rodgers and Hart's... MORE
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Outside of a few luminaries (Joni,Janis,Grace)Classic Rock was dominated by male artists. So here's a Clasic Rock Mix, that attempts to right that wrong. To some this mix falls under the category: If you can't beat 'em Join 'em. To me it sounds more like ladies first. Millie Jackson vs.70's Rod Stewart or Toto-I'll take Millie, both times. Nina Simone Vs.Eric Burdon, that's a no brainer. Ella vs. Clapton,well..you be the judge. 1.Get Ready-Ella Fitzgerald2.Feelin' Alrigh... MORE
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"Robin Hunt walks across Europe this spring and summer. He explores, in the mid-Jacobean era of our own technological renaissance, the state of Europe, travel, cities, the country, art, love, literature, mirrors and printing presses." (Robin at my local bar, Voxx, photographed by my friend H.) This week was supposed to be a 'work' week, with us making our DIY theremins/website and returning back to a cost-free quiet 7 of self-induced responsibility. But, like all good... MORE
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Let's get this mog started.
Cute name, mog. Reminds some kind of childish noise. Mog. Mog. Listen to the toddlers mog, so, hey ho, let's ...
stop the music quotation madness?
oh dear, i so very much doubt it.
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Now that she'd been dead at least ten years, the U.S. Postage Service released a new stamp yesterday (actually, the first new stamp of 2007) celebrating Ella Fitzgerald! Interestingly, it was released as part of the "Black Heritage" series instead of the Jazz series of stamps. I can't help what wonder what Ella would have thought. Would she rather be recognized as a Jazz Singer or for being Black? The ceremony on 10 Jan 2007 was performed at Lincoln Center and attended b... MORE
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Hey, it's a rainy sunday, and what is best than good music to deal with that?
just relax, and enjoy these two wonderful pieces of cat, impros by Ella..
May this music be like big smiles in your day:))
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'round here, with a 3 and 5 y/o in a small city apartment, privacy is a sometime thing. on weekends we've a new institution, Nap Time, and we close the door, and she lets her hair hang down...and we kick it off with a grievous-tini, basically iced absolute citron over ice, and cue up the most romantic lead possible to possibly the most romantic album ever...and she makes me glad that i'm her man...
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85 degrees and the humidity is on full blast. Yes its definitely Summertime....
Any other suggestions?....
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WASHINGTON - Ella Fitzgerald — the First Lady of Song — is being honored on a new postage stamp. The 39-cent stamp will be released Wednesday at ceremonies at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, and will be on sale across the country. It’s the 30th stamp in the agency’s Black Heritage series. “She would be very honored, very pleased and a little surprised,” said Ray Brown Jr., Fitzgerald’s son. “She didn’t go through life expecting all the accolades that she got. She w... MORE
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ella fitzgerald was remarkable. truly remarkable. no one before or since like her. working where i do I have the pleasure and honor working with a huge swath of her recorded material. i swear she never had a bad night or bad session. . . . the ability she had to perform complex music and make it sounds so easy was amazing . . . she swings better than anyone and no one ever scat sang as well as she did - with the possible exception of Louis Armstrong . . . Ella Fitzgeral... MORE
