Bibliograph

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, the jazz singer who transformed American song, Judith Tick

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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, the jazz singer who transformed American song, Judith Tick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-539), discography (page 539), and index

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

Nature of contents

discographiesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Judith Tick

Sub title

the jazz singer who transformed American song

Summary

A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator

Table Of Contents

Young Ella (1917-1932) -- Amateur Nights (1933-1935) -- Into Chick Webb's Orbit (1935) -- Swing-Song Singer (1935-1936) -- The Second Feature (1936-1937) -- "Truckin' On Down The Avenue" (1938) -- Chick And Ella (1939) -- Orchestra Leader (1940-1942) -- The Home Front (1941-1945) -- "Going Dizzy" (1945-1947) -- Ella's Moon (1947-1949) -- "The Singer And The Label Are In It Together" (1948-1953) -- Early Years With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1949-1952) -- Europe With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1952-1953) -- Upwardly Mobile (1954-1955) -- "We Got Ella!" (1954-1956) -- The Cole Porter Experiment (1956-1957) -- Sing Me A Standard (1956-1957) -- Flouting Categories (1957-1958) -- Midcentury Modern Triumphs (1959) -- "It's Quite A Problem Trying To Please Everyone" (1960-1964) -- Generation Gaps (1963-1965) -- A Jazz Oasis In A Changing Scene (1966-1967) -- Reinventing Herself (1968-1969) -- Keeping On (1970-1972) -- "You Can Always Learn" (1973-1978) -- "Push Me, Push Me" (1979-1985) -- "Don't Ever Wish For The Phrase To End" (1986-1996)

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Jazz singer who transformed American song

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