Ella is seriously amazing. Her understanding of music, the changes in the piece, and how to improvise and scat through them are just overwhelming. Truly a legend. Mainstream America doesn't have the patience to sit through - thinking - this music. All the average white bread (plain/boring/simple - not a racial reference, to be sure) American wants is square background music. No one wants to have to think anymore. This music requires thinking and focus. Well worth the effort, of course.
If you go to jazz festivals, you can still find some singers like this. But yes, they are rare. I once heard a guy improvise and sing as high as her, it was incredible! Unfortunately, this music is not mainstream anymore. We have to live with it
This video is so funny. She had such a radiant presence! It's hard to even imagine any of the challenges she might have faced, or the way things were for women back then. It's like she broke through all the barriers with a smile. That voice. That light.
This is why Ella is one of a kind!! God has blessed us with some greats (Ella, Frank, Sammy, Peggy, etc.) No other like Ella - nor will ever be. Happy Birthday Ella, pray you are in Heaven - resting!! Thanks for posting this treasure!!
I saw Her after diabetes took her leg and she was still hot. Free concert in the park in Pittsburgh and she tore it up. Amazing artist I absolutely love her. Makes me glad I am black!
LOL! Love how towards the end she's like, "Hope that I am still in tune". I'm sure she was being serious, but it just goes to show you that she must've had a good sense of humor. I love her music.
The most incredible thing about this performance is that it's all improvised. The musicians follow her and just go with the flow. You have to be really good to keep up with the singer and come in just when she needs you.
On August 15th, 1960 Ella Fitzgerald's "How High The Moon" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it would peak at #76 and spent 5 weeks in the Top 100. The most successful version of this song was by Les Paul and Mary Ford; in 1951 it reached No.1 {for 9 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and No. 1 {for 9 weeks} on Most Played by Jockeys chart, and finally No. 1 {for 9 weeks} on Most Played in Jukeboxes chart.. Was ranked No. 3 on Billboard's Year-End Top 30 Singles of 1951 chart.
Greatest female vocalist of all time--she could sing anything and sing it to perfection!! I cringe whenever I hear singers that try to mimic her style (e.g. Dee Dee Bridgewater). Nobody can duplicate her style and it shouldn't even be attempted!!
Kayla Geyer great new perspective. Indeed, someone better may come along. But particularly in terms of scatting and improvisation, so far there may still be no one else like Ella.
@xtremenortherner we didn't have her for a time....we have her know and will have her forever...there is no other like ella fitzgerald, she is simply the best....to meet her music is a gift of God, she is that good!!!
So right about the never heard an off key note -- EXCEPT when would intentionally and with great finesse hit the note on "KEY" in the song "You Can't Take That Away From Me" the lyric "...the way you sing off KEY, the memory of all that, no, no you can't take that away from me" -- and even then it was a beautiful off key note
@dperkins1911 you are so right.....we don't have anyone like this, anyone....i mean, we do have great singers (a few, specially in popular music) but no one will ever compare to Ella. I mean, even back in her time, a lot of singers could only hope to sing like this......she was so unique....long live ella!!!
Ella Fitzgerald, vocally masterful! Seamless! But in my opinion, although she wasn't the creator of this style called "scattin". But it comes out of her just as if she were breathing! Im a musician, and it is very difficult to deliver to the audience the way Louis would drop a line.. Effortlessly as she did, and ALWAYS IN PITCH!!! And she never sang the same riff over, she would improvise and create new ways to make the audience, that are in the "know", feel special. Like it was the first time they heard it, again! It seems like she has conversations with the instrument itself rather than the guy with the fella thats trynna keep up with Ella! She still lives in this world today.. Afforded by the graces of mans creativite and progressive nature. I can listen to her over and over, and i hear new things. Like i missed that tiny lilt or i missed a phrase that made the slightest tingle down my spine.. She never ceases to keep me wanting more.. Anyone know of or have in their possession, footage or music that was never released and are able to share, i would be interested in maybe a purchase.. remember music is medicine for the soul
@jonas220393 I do believe it is a quote from the finale of the William Tell Overture (Giachino Rossini) or better known as part of the "Lone Ranger" theme.
This is from a concert in Stockholm in 1966 with the Ellington band (I've never been sure if it's the exact same one that's on CD as The Stockholm Concert, but the repertoire is the same, if only in a different order).
comparing her to Om Kalsoum and in this concert she is with scarf and musicians who are enraptured with her, I want you to notice the drummer and pianist and then when you see the nay and kanun player of Om Kalsoum, see how they are enraptured with her singing my best enjoy this moreen MARRURRA
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Ella is seriously amazing. Her understanding of music, the changes in the piece, and how to improvise and scat through them are just overwhelming. Truly a legend. Mainstream America doesn't have the patience to sit through - thinking - this music. All the average white bread (plain/boring/simple - not a racial reference, to be sure) American wants is square background music. No one wants to have to think anymore. This music requires thinking and focus. Well worth the effort, of course.
nobody will ever scat like ella!!!!! she is life embodied...
Caterina Valente was pretty good.
Ella is the queen of scat. I love it!
If you go to jazz festivals, you can still find some singers like this. But yes, they are rare. I once heard a guy improvise and sing as high as her, it was incredible!
Unfortunately, this music is not mainstream anymore. We have to live with it
This video is so funny. She had such a radiant presence! It's hard to even imagine any of the challenges she might have faced, or the way things were for women back then. It's like she broke through all the barriers with a smile. That voice. That light.
Satchmo was the same. Never saw him without a radiant smile of pure joy.
She's a legend.
This lady can sing her --- off, Period!
This is why Ella is one of a kind!! God has blessed us with some greats (Ella, Frank, Sammy, Peggy, etc.) No other like Ella - nor will ever be. Happy Birthday Ella, pray you are in Heaven - resting!! Thanks for posting this treasure!!
Pure and simple genius. Yes such a thing exists. You just witnessed it.
Ella Fitzgerald always was and always will be my number one favorite jazz singer.
This is the best performance I've ever heard. wow...
I saw Her after diabetes took her leg and she was still hot. Free concert in the park in Pittsburgh and she tore it up. Amazing artist I absolutely love her. Makes me glad I am black!
LOL Me too. We are amazing, aren't we!!
LOL! Love how towards the end she's like, "Hope that I am still in tune". I'm sure she was being serious, but it just goes to show you that she must've had a good sense of humor. I love her music.
Her timing just blows my mind!
Right! Her ear is AMAZING!!
4:05
I listened to this part So many times!!!! Ella you are freaking Amazing!!!!! You turned my ears to Loving Jazz!
Love the way she uses her voice as a real instrument!!
my mouth dropped. literally.
her scat is amazing
She is off the map! A league all her own!
This woman is a beast! In a league of her own. . .What would I give to experience a live concert with the great Ella? That's entertainment!!!
Her improve is impeccable... simply amazing performance!
Maravillosa por siempre.
This one's from "The Stockholm Concert, 1966," one of the best songs on the album.
pure magic, my heart and ear feels ever note, beat, rhythm. I get it Ella, only real ears can.
The guys face at 4:05 says it all!!! Playing drums along to this made me smile so much. The energy Ella exerts is magical.
And this is why she is a legend!
Great improvisation- that's what makes a blissful star in the sky. Happy B, Ella girl! :)
I love the way she addresses the audience and imitates instrument sounds. :) This lady is amazing. Hey . . . Why'd it stop??
This woman was pure magic - you dont get talent like this in any college, this is spiritual stuff.
She absolutely killed this (thats a good thing...).
Great great performance!!
This is closer but still mote jazzy than she had performed it on the record. Thanks for helping me find it.
Hoppy Birthday Queen Ella Fitzgerald! This lady was a musical instrument created only by musical gods
Великолепная импровизация и scat.
Спасибо, Степа!
The most incredible thing about this performance is that it's all improvised. The musicians follow her and just go with the flow. You have to be really good to keep up with the singer and come in just when she needs you.
Happy birthday, Ella. We love and miss you.
Wonderful scat singing.
Thx Ella!!!
non ci sono commenti da fare la più grande vocalist jazz di tutti i tempi sentirla fa venire la pelle d'oca il suo mito resisterà per sempre
Amazingly this performance stands up like a champion full of of life and gusto! Wow!
On August 15th, 1960 Ella Fitzgerald's "How High The Moon" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it would peak at #76 and spent 5 weeks in the Top 100.
The most successful version of this song was by Les Paul and Mary Ford; in 1951 it reached No.1 {for 9 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and No. 1 {for 9 weeks} on Most Played by Jockeys chart, and finally No. 1 {for 9 weeks} on Most Played in Jukeboxes chart..
Was ranked No. 3 on Billboard's Year-End Top 30 Singles of 1951 chart.
Eine Jazz Legende
My head feels like a frisbee!
Wow... I love her.
This woman was a beast! Even the piano player @ 4:05 was like, "I'm watching this shit and I still don't believe it!"
Greatest female vocalist of all time--she could sing anything and sing it to perfection!! I cringe whenever I hear singers that try to mimic her style (e.g. Dee Dee Bridgewater). Nobody can duplicate her style and it shouldn't even be attempted!!
agreed however ella does have contemporaries wha are all very good sarah V da Dinah W lady day anita o day ect
I would love to see it happen---but so far it hasn't!!
Kayla Geyer great new perspective. Indeed, someone better may come along. But particularly in terms of scatting and improvisation, so far there may still be no one else like Ella.
Patti Austin did an incredible tribute to her... It was very impressive... I agree with you tho
Thanks for posting! Its my favorite track of all times.
O.M.G first ever I listened to this song .. AMAZING !!
"Hi - hi - high is the moon, and I hope I'm still in tune!!!"
Awesome!!! :))))
4:09 shpongle actually sampled this part in "my head feels like a frisbee"
Mind blown, love shpongle
@xtremenortherner we didn't have her for a time....we have her know and will have her forever...there is no other like ella fitzgerald, she is simply the best....to meet her music is a gift of God, she is that good!!!
So right about the never heard an off key note -- EXCEPT when would intentionally and with great finesse hit the note on "KEY" in the song "You Can't Take That Away From Me" the lyric "...the way you sing off KEY, the memory of all that, no, no you can't take that away from me" -- and even then it was a beautiful off key note
Diocane it's actually molto gud devo dire. æstetiks🤞
thumbs up if fresh prince brought u here!
thank you so much !!! ella!
The black diamond. Superb!
soo great, Ella i love you
in love with this version!
Happy Birthday Ella!, You are my Hero!
Que voz mas divina. Ella era simplemente FABULOSA.
my favorite song of hers and duke's.. :D
Simply amazing....
Always amazing scat !
@dperkins1911 you are so right.....we don't have anyone like this, anyone....i mean, we do have great singers (a few, specially in popular music) but no one will ever compare to Ella. I mean, even back in her time, a lot of singers could only hope to sing like this......she was so unique....long live ella!!!
wow wow wow it's like listening to the mother of music
Swinging jazz scatting...Ella forever baby!
she is the best!the best!
"o nosso amor va ser assim"!!
Thanks for posting.
Happy Birthday Ella.
Wow
Just one word: unbelievably..
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Saben por qué estoy aquí? Porque acabo de escuchar a esta maravilla de voz!!
Ella Fitzgerald could interpolate ANY song into this one and make it hers.
GRACIAS ELLA PORESE LEGADO,,,,,GRACIAS
This is awesome!
Ms. Ella was and is w/out equal. A majority of today's so called "singers" can only hope that they could sing 1/25 as good as the First Lady of Jazz.
Many people are just too dumb to get the beauty of it.
Exactly! Is A Hard Days Night
SORPRENDENTE!
it's been a haard day's night :DD
WOWWW!!
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... And I hope I'm still in tune... Haha! And she was:-]
My precious baby.
scat like nobody. she samples 'o nosso armor' by vinicius and jobim. AND ITS AMAZING.
Ella Fitzgerald, vocally masterful! Seamless! But in my opinion, although she wasn't the creator of this style called "scattin". But it comes out of her just as if she were breathing! Im a musician, and it is very difficult to deliver to the audience the way Louis would drop a line.. Effortlessly as she did, and ALWAYS IN PITCH!!! And she never sang the same riff over, she would improvise and create new ways to make the audience, that are in the "know", feel special. Like it was the first time they heard it, again! It seems like she has conversations with the instrument itself rather than the guy with the fella thats trynna keep up with Ella! She still lives in this world today.. Afforded by the graces of mans creativite and progressive nature. I can listen to her over and over, and i hear new things. Like i missed that tiny lilt or i missed a phrase that made the slightest tingle down my spine.. She never ceases to keep me wanting more..
Anyone know of or have in their possession, footage or music that was never released and are able to share, i would be interested in maybe a purchase.. remember music is medicine for the soul
SMH SMH SMH...i can't even speak after this..God bless this woman's soul
totally
2018, Fresh Prince reference hahaha Love it ❤
THIS MUSIC IS in the INSANITY level!!!
She was a genius. I think she was literally a genius.
She had perfect pitch :D
@xtremenortherner she is the Queen.
Mdssss ♡
Ella = God
@jonas220393 I do believe it is a quote from the finale of the William Tell Overture (Giachino Rossini) or better known as part of the "Lone Ranger" theme.
music lessons in the school brought me here
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaf wat een muziek!!!
@erthsister Anita O'Day scats great too
This is from a concert in Stockholm in 1966 with the Ellington band (I've never been sure if it's the exact same one that's on CD as The Stockholm Concert, but the repertoire is the same, if only in a different order).
comparing her to Om Kalsoum and in this concert she is
with scarf and musicians who are enraptured with her, I
want you to notice the drummer and pianist and then
when you see the nay and kanun player of Om Kalsoum,
see how they are enraptured with her singing my best
enjoy this moreen MARRURRA