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ELLA FITZGERALD There was a voice in America
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Author: Steven Jezo-Vannier
Steven Jezo-Vannier listened to hundreds of hours of archives, interviews, recordings... to write the first biography in France dedicated to the singer.
Mornings // TSF Jazz
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“Absolutely remarkable.”
Jérôme, Lamartine Bookstore (Paris 16th )
Born in 1917 in the southern United States, an orphan roaming the streets of Harlem, haunted by anguish and her childhood secrets, Ella Fitzgerald sacrificed her life to the public and to music, until she melted into it. Her wild scat, her luminous interpretations, and her art of improvisation bear witness to this. She is at once the swing of big bands, the bebop of foggy clubs, Broadway musicals, and the ballads of Tin Pan Alley. She sang on equal terms with Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra, and gave their letters of nobility to the best American composers: Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and even the pop of the Beatles. In an America consumed by racism, she brought jazz and Black artists into places that were forbidden to them and thus helped to win the dignity they were due. The importance of his work is at once musical, heritage and cultural.
ISBN: 9782361397593