Poster movie

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Music

Documentary

Lenguage:0 min

Duration:en

Release date:Feb 19, 2017

Calificacion:8.0

Description:

Ella Fitzgerald's voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had the perfect pitch and perfect intonation. Ella's voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless. There is almost no style of music, in which she did not excel, and her numerous - now legendary - recordings of the 'Great American Songbook' with pieces of US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harald Arlen, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington, remained a benchmark for the "right" interpretation of those songs for generations of singers. In the film the focus will be on the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. We want to unravel the secret of her voice through many different people (musicians, singers, critics etc.), who will tell about what impact her voice had on them and still has. We want to learn more about Ella´s life to find out what made her sing like she did and only she could.

Cast

Ella Fitzgerald
Ella FitzgeraldSelf (archive footage)
Jim Blackman
Jim BlackmanSelf - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager
Regina Carter
Regina CarterSelf
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee BridgewaterSelf
Terri Lyne Carrington
Terri Lyne CarringtonSelf
Will Friedwald
Will FriedwaldSelf - music critic
Tad Hershorn
Tad HershornSelf - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Sheila Jordan
Sheila JordanSelf
Dianne Reeves
Dianne ReevesSelf
Judith Tick
Judith TickSelf - professor of music history, Northeastern University

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