MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald would make anybody’s Top 3 list of great female jazz singers, and her versatility makes many consider her the greatest ever. From her unparalleled scat singing, to her satin-smooth interpretations of classic ballads, Ella Fitzgerald’s collection of skills helped earn her the title “The First Lady of Song.” Born poor in Newport News, Va. in 1917, Fitzgerald was discovered as a teenager after winning an amateur talent contest at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. She joined Chick Webb’s orchestra soon afterward, in 1935, and got widespread attention when “A-Tisket, A-Takset” became a hit three years later. After Webb died in 1939, Fitzgerald continued to front the orchestra for two more years before going solo. In the first half of the ‘40s, she focused on more pop-oriented material, teaming with Louis Jordan and the Ink Sports, but when bebop exploded in 1945, Fitzgerald got caught up in the excitement too, touring with Dizzy Gillespie’s big band and developing a scatting style to match the bop masters’ lighting fast improvisations. From 1948 to 1952, she was married to bassist Ray Brown, whose jazz trio backed her, yet by the mid-‘50s she’d embarked on an incredibly ambitious project, recording a series of “Songbooks” for Verve that featured her versions of classic songs by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and other great composers. She continued to record for Verve into the mid-‘60s, including Ella at Duke’s Place, a 1965 studio collaboration with Ellington. She then signed to Capitol and, like many jazz artists of the day, began covering the pop and R&B hits that had knocked jazz off the charts. But the formation of the Pablo label in the early ‘70s gave her a chance to get back to her jazz roots, which she did on albums like 1975’s Ella and Oscar, which paired her with pianist Oscar Peterson and her ex-husband, Ray Brown. However, her voice had begun to decline, and ironically, she’s perhaps best remembered during this period for shattering a glass in a famous series of “Is it live…” commercials for Memorex. Fitzgerald continued to record for Pablo into the ‘80s, although by the latter half of that decade her output was infrequent, and due to vision and heart problems, she retired from the stage in 1994. She died two years later, leaving behind a massive legacy of recorded work that showcased a voice nearly beyond compare.     Ella Fitzgerald Good Enough To Keep MP3 Jazz This live gem showcases Ella Fitzgerald scatting the crap outta this bouncy little number. Weaving lines from popular songs of her day into her intricate scat phrasings (and at one point proving she just might have invented Tuvan Throat singing), we wonder if this one is good enough to keep. You.. make.. the calllll! Ella Fitzgerald Tain't What You Do LiquidAudio Jazz, Pop Ella’s pretty stellah on this ‘30s pop jam from the vaults. Still just a kid, her pipes were nearly ripe, and she shows she knows how to swing!
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