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Author: Stuart NicholsonPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0684196999Subject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9780684196992Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 1994Condition: Good
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Beginning in the late 1930s, Ella Fitzgerald's long career spanned much of 20th-century jazz history, starting with her recording debut with Chick Webb's orchestra and reaching its apex with a celebrated series of albums she made with most of the leading figures in jazz, from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. After a poverty-stricken childhood in New York, Fitzgerald was discovered singing at the Apollo Theater in Harlem by Benny Carter, and started with Webb's band soon after (although her disheveled appearance--she was homeless at the time--nearly lost her the gig). Her subsequent rise to national prominence was not without misfortune: she experienced both sexual and racial prejudice, her marriage to bass player Ray Brown collapsed due to the pressure of both their careers, and she also suffered from chronic depression. ELLA FITZGERALD, Stuart Nicholson's insightful study of the career of the "First Lady of Jazz," ties the threads of her complex personal and public lives together in a skillful blend of revealing intimate details and authoritative career analysis, from the loneliness that accompanied her fame to her fortuitous association with the impresario Norman Granz, who successfully guided her career for half a century.

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The life of the very private and media-shy Ella Fitzgerald has long been shrouded in a mixture of half-truths and fiction. What emerges in Stuart Nicholson's groundbreaking biography - the first in more than a decade - is the remarkable and triumphant story of a poor black girl's determination to realize the American Dream in the face of constant racial and sexual prejudice. Now nearly eighty years old, Ella Fitzgerald is the definition of jazz singer to millions around the world, and acclaimed as one of the greatest of all jazz musicians. This is the fullest-ever account of Ella's life, and Stuart Nicholson draws almost exclusively on fresh research and on interviews with many of Ella's friends and colleagues who have not cooperated with other writers, including an interview with Norman Granz, Ella's longtime manager and the producer behind her legendary Songbook series. Within two years of her professional debut as a gauche sixteen-year-old, Ella had achieved stardom with a million-selling record. By the 1950s, she was feted by the rich and famous throughout the world and collaborating with all the greatest artists in jazz and popular music, from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Yet, as Stuart Nicholson shows, while hailed abroad as a cultural ambassador for her country, she had to endure vicious racism at home, including a sensational arrest scandal on trumped-up charges in the Deep South. Nicholson examines the key influence upon Ella of bandleader Chick Webb, and provides the first in-depth analysis of Webb's career. He also considers Ella's complex relationship with Norman Granz, and traces her unhappy love life, involving two failed marriagesand a series of casual affairs. But above all Nicholson celebrates Ella's music, live and on record, highlighting her finest work and considering her alongside her great rival and fellow icon, Billie Holiday. Supplemented by an authoritative discography by noted jazz historian Phil Schaap and illustrated with many unknown photographs, Ella Fitzgerald offers a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most popular American singers of the century, and the only artist in jazz history whose work spans seven decades.

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"One of the very best biographies of any great American singer ever published. . . . Stuart Nicholson's long-awaited book is everything we could have hoped a biography could be--thoroughly researched and revelatory about her personal and professional lives. Equally important, Nicholson is a fine writer and critic, with a keen musical sense that allows him to evaluate all the many milestones in Ella's oceanic recorded output. His fresh appreciation of Ella's music will be eagerly devoured by all lovers of great songs and great singing."
Friedwald 

'Stuart Nicholson's exhaustively researched biography of the late Ella Fitzgerald...demystifies a life hitherto shrouded in speculation....Nicholson reveals a woman who only really came to life when she sang."
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0684196999
Title : Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
Authors : Stuart Nicholson
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Publication Date : 1994-05
Pages : 334
List Price (MSRP) : 23.00
Height : 1.2500 inches
Width : 6.4700 inches
Length : 9.5100 inches
Weight : 1.4700 pounds
Keywords : Voice, General, Jazz, Entertainers, African-American & Black, Women
Condition : Good

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