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Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography.(The Biography Shelf)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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The Bookwatch
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September 1, 2004
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography.
Stuart Nicholson
Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001
0415971195 $19.95 www.amazon.com
The revised edition of this survey of jazz lady Ella Fitzgerald will appeal to any who haven't already go...
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; ... and pathos of their lyrics." Fitzgerald was born to the unmarried couple of William Fitzgerald and Tempie Williams in Newport News, Va., in 1917 - not, the author states, the widely published 1918. She was soon abandoned by her father and moved with her mother ...
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ELLA FITZGERALD, JAZZ GREAT, DIES `FIRST LADY OF SONG' RECORDED 250 ALBUMS, WON 13 GRAMMYS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ... said. ``Her fans will remember her and love her; that's what's important,'' said her attorney, Richard Rosman. Born in Newport News, Va., on April 25, 1918, the untrained Fitzgerald overcame shyness to start singing in public at age 16. Through her career ...
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THE VOICE OF A LIFETIME; Elegant Ella Fitzgerald Sang Her Way Into Our Hearts
The Washington Post
; No moon was higher, no ocean deeper, than when Ella Fitzgerald measured them. Mack the Knife was never sharper than in her hands, and Miss Otis's regrets were never more heartfelt than when Fitzgerald extended them. Over the weekend, American popular song turned blue when Ella Fitzgerald passed
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CAREER SPANNED 50 YEARS Jazz giant Ella Fitzgerald dies
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... date as 1918, her birth certificate and school records show her to have been born a year earlier, on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Va. Fitzgerald was married twice, 1941-'43 to shipyard worker Benny Kornegay, and 1948-'52 to jazz bassist Ray Brown. They had ...
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