ELLA FITZGERALD (First lady of song) Jazz History #38

Probably no one has inspired as many young jazz singers as Ella Fitzgerald, and few jazz musicians have ever been so beloved and respected in the often-incompatible worlds of jazz and popular music. From the start of her career as a teenager singing with Chick Webb, to her immersion in bebop and then a series of albums produced by Norman Granz which established her as a quintessential performer of the Great American Songbook, Ella became known as the First Lady of Song. Her Memorex commercials seen in this clip harken back to a time when jazz musicians were a marketable commodity! ABOUT THIS SERIES The Jazz History series is a video adaptation of a PowerPoint presentation used to teach a university course. It traces the roots of jazz from Ragtime at the turn of the 20th century to jazz-rock fusion at the end of the 1960s. You’ll find a lot more videos like this one in the JAZZ HISTORY playlist on this channel. If you want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of playing jazz, check out