Anniversaire d'Ella Fitzgerald

 

Purchase tickets for the Ella Fitzgerald birthday concert

The recipient of 13 Grammy Awards, Ella Fitzgerald has been called one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century. To honor her legacy, at 7 p.m. on April 29th some of the world’s greatest singers and songwriters will join hands at the new Galen Center on the campus of USC to celebrate what would have been her 90th birthday.

Happy Birthday Ella: An All Star Concert Celebrating The First Lady of Song – Ella Fitzgerald, will feature blockbuster performances from the likes of Natalie Cole, k.d. Lang, Nancy Wilson, Cyndi Lauper and Ruben Studdard, as well as a handful of other popular recording artists and special guests set to perform the songs that made Ella Fitzgerald the “quintessential American success story.”

Tickets for this star-studded event go on sale Wednesday, April 4 at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) and can be purchased at TicketMaster.com. Tickets are also available at all Ticketmaster outlets including Ritmo Latino, select Macy’s and Wherehouse Music locations. To charge tickets by phone, call (213) 480-3232, (714) 740-2000, (805) 583-8700, (661) 322-2525, (619) 220-TIXS or at the Galen Center box office at (213) 740-GOSC (4672).

Proceeds from the concert help support the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.

Happy Birthday Ella: An All Star Concert Celebrating The First Lady of Song – Ella Fitzgerald is presented by WNET / GREAT PERFORMANCES, VERVE, CONCORD MUSIC GROUP and the UNIVERSITY of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ATHLETIC DEPT

Née à Newport, Virginie le 25 avril 1918
Décédée à New York City, New York le 15 juin 1996

http://www.ellafitzgerald.com




 

"Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'" (Ella Fitzgerald)

"The only thing better than singing is more singing." (Ella Fitzgerald)

 

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts." (Ella Fitzgerald)

"If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald."
( Vincente Minnelli)

"The best way to start any musical evening is with this girl. It don't get better than this." (Frank Sinatra)

"She brings out the best in everybody, making everyone work that much harder to keep up with her."
(Andy Williams)

 

"Man, woman or child, Ella is the greatest of them all."
(Bing Crosby )

 

"I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns."( Ella Fitzgerald)

DISCOGRAPHIE :

1950 : Ella Sings Gershwin (Decca) 1954 : Songs in a Mellow Mood (Decca) 1955 : Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (Decca) 1956 : Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (Verve) 1956: Ella and Louis (Verve) 1956: Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (Verve) 1957 : Ella and Louis Again (Verve) 1957: Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (Verve) 1957: Ella at the Opera House (Verve) 1957: Like Someone in Love (Verve) 1957: Porgy and Bess (Verve) 1958 : Ella and Billie at Newport (Verve) 1958: Ella Swings Lightly (Verve) 1958: Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (Verve) 1958: Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (Verve) 1959 : Get Happy! (Verve) 1959: Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (Verve) 1959: Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (Verve) 1960 : Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (Verve) 1960: Wishes You a Merry Christmas (Verve) 1960: Hello, Love (Verve) 1960: Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (Verve) 1960: Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (Verve) 1961 : Ella in Hollywood (Verve) 1961: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (Verve) 1961: Ella Returns to Berlin (Verve) 1962: Rhythm Is My Business (Verve) 1962: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (Verve) 1962: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson (Verve) 1963 : Ella Sings Broadway (Verve) 1963: Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (Verve) 1963: Ella and Basie! (Verve) 1963: These Are the Blues (Verve) 1964 : Hello, Dolly! (album)|Hello, Dolly! (Verve) 1964: Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (Verve)

1965 : Ella at Duke's Place (Verve) 1965: Ella in Hamburg (Verve) 1966 : Whisper Not (Verve) 1966: Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur (Verve) 1967 : Brighten the Corner 1967: Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas 1968 : 30 by Ella 1969 : Watch What Happens 1969: Ella (Reprise) 1970 : Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Reprise) 1970: Ella in Budapest, Hungary (Pablo) 1971 : Ella A Nice (Pablo) 1972 : Ella Loves Cole (Atlantic) 1973 : Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia Records) 1973: Take Love Easy (Pablo) 1974 : Ella Fitzgerald Jams (Pablo) 1974: Ella in London (Pablo) 1975 : Ella and Oscar (Pablo) 1975: Montreux '75 (Pablo) 1976 : Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (Pablo) 1977 : Montreux '77 (Pablo) 1978 : Lady Time (Pablo) 1978: Dream Dancing (Pablo) 1979 : Digital III at Montreux (Pablo) 1979: A Classy Pair (Pablo) 1979: A Perfect Match (Pablo). Ce concert public de 1979 au festival de jazz de Montreux est aussi diffusé sur le DVD Ella and Basie - the Perfect Match, '79. 1981 : Ella Abraca Jobim (Pablo) 1982 : The Best Is Yet to Come (Pablo) 1983 : Speak Love (Pablo) 1983: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Pablo) 1986 : Easy Living (Pablo) 1989 : All That Jazz (Pablo)