Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | yesterday

in post Open Your Box 20/Hits 32: Goodbyes from Different Is Dangerous .

Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love

The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

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Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love

Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

Miss Ella Fitzgerald “Listen - Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love - MP3″ Greetings all. Here we are in the middle of the week and I figured the time was ripe to drop something funky from someone who existed in a universe light-years removed from the world of funk, that being one of the greatest jazz [...]

New World Kids

Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008

Here’s a spot from New World Supermarkets in New Zealand. A range of kids demonstrate the passions for produce passed on to them by their parents. Music is a variation on “It ain’t what you do”, originally sung by Ella Fitzgerald in 1939. [Chorus] It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it It ain’t what [...]

TV/FILM: Ella Fitzgerald Special Tonight Kcet

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008

Jazz Icons: Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 and '63 Two classic Ella Fitzgerald performances. The first, in Belgium (1957), features "Lullaby of Birdland" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"; the second set, in Sweden (1963), includes "Mack the Knife" and "Just One of those Things...

Questions And Stuff

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008

But first, Ella Fitzgerald with One Note Samba It's happy music for a Monday morning. I find my tail tapping with the same rhythm. And now the questions. They are about the comments threads on this blog. Should I make up a set of rules which people should follow? And if so, what should be in those rules? I'd be interested in hearing your opinions. Finally, I found this story about beguinages fascinating....

Too Darn Hot: Ella Fitzgerald

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008

Timeless: “Cry Me A River”

Vivian J. Paige (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008

One of my favorite songs. First, the 1957 original from the sultry Julie London (this is the version I keep in my CD player in my car): Covered in 1975 by The First Lady of Song, Newport News own Ella Fitzgerald, with one of the finest guitar players, Joe Pass: Finally, this 2007 cover by Diana Krall. [...]

July 21, 2008

breath of life (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Let's see, we start with love songs from Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Willie Hutch, Maria Bethania, Yellowman, Sam Cooke, Van Morrison and Stevie Wonder; and then we wander around the four corners of Africa with Manou Gallo, Souad Massi, Saba and Ernestine Deane; finally Matt Lemmler does jazz covers of [...]

Ella Fitzgerald's Scat Singing

Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008

Scat singing was the mother. Hip-hop was the child. Rap is a third-generation variant. JMHO

choose ye: celebrity edition!

megfowler.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008

(Remember — no “it depends” or “both!” or “neither”… you must choose!) Robert Redford or Paul Newman? Bill Murray or Steve Martin? Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley? George Clooney or Brad Pitt? Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday? Garrison Keillor or David Sedaris? Stevie Wonder or Al Green? Sophia Loren or Marilyn Monroe? Lawrence Welk or Percy Faith? Miles Davis or John [...]...

Bobby Durham, 71; versatile jazz, R & B drummer

LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

Bobby Durham, a jazz drummer of impeccable taste and versatility who teamed with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald and became a fixture of the Jazz at the Philharmonic touring concert series, died July 7 at a hospital in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had lung cancer and emphysema.

Bobby Durham | Jazz drummer, 71

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008

Bobby Durham, 71, a Philadelphia native and drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died of lung cancer Monday in Genoa, Italy, where he had a home. Mr. Durham was probably best known for his trio work from 1966 to 1971 with...

Honey, Our Bees Are in Trouble

BlogHer (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008

"Summer time, and the livin' is easy ..." (Wanna listen while reading? Open the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong classic in another window. For optimal effect, listen to birds singing at the same time!) Okay, now that we're, um, in the mood, let's skip the birds and move straight to the bees, you know, honey bees.

Curtain Up | Hartford: Reviving a Legend

DATA news (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

Tina Fabrique has been keeping alive the memory of Ella Fitzgerald with a stage show of songs and reminiscences.