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Ella Fitzgerald (with Chick Webb): Chew, Chew, Chew (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

During her performances with Chick Webb’s orchestra, Ella not only served as featured vocalist, but also stood out as...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Chick Webb: Liza (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

Jazz fans all know Ella Fitzgerald's hit recording of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" -- but how many have checked out this ve...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb: A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

     Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss Ella Fitzgerald's breakth...

Ella Fitzgerald (with Chick Webb): A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Endearing as this performance is by Ella, it also says a lot about her as an artist. For her the song is fun. When s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Chick Webb: If Dreams Come True – as heard in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

Just as Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" flaunted jazz's naughty influence on 1920s pop culture, "If Dreams Come True,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Webb, William Henry “Chick” posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

Swing music literally emerged before Chick Webb's eyes as he sat on his drummer's throne on the stage of the Home of ...

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 09, 09

Whatever the contractual agreements were that allowed Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong to record together for Verv...

Fitzgerald, Ella posted in Encyclopedia January 14, 08

To paraphrase the poet Robert Graves, Ella Fitzgerald was really very good, despite all the people who said she was...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...

Green, Charlie posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

"Big" Charlie Green was the first trombonist in jazz to combine a large, well-rounded sound with a sense of swing and...

Clarke, Kenny "Klook" (Kenneth Spearman) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"That man is modern!" exclaimed Louis Armstrong in 1940 when drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke joined his band. But Clarke...

GRAMMY® Hall of Fame Jazz Singles posted in Features and Interviews January 20, 08

"The Hall of Fame Award," explains The Recording Academy's website, "was established in 1973 to honor recordings of l...

Blakey, Art (Arthur) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09

Art Blakey's unbridled drumming brought freshness and vitality to the influential recordings he made with Thelonious...

Morton, Benny (Henry Sterling) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Benny Morton's consistent excellence on the trombone made him one of the few pioneers of jazz on his instrument to en...

Higginbotham, J.C. (Jay C., Jack) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

J.C. Higginbotham brought a uniquely bombastic element to jazz trombone playing, making a career as one of the Swin...

Puente, Tito (Ernesto Antonio Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Known affectionately as the "Mambo King" and "El Rey," timbalero Tito Puente was an instrumental figure in popularizi...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

The Legacy of Ella Fitzgerald posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 20, 08

Jazz.com concludes its two-week focus on jazz singers with Stuart Nicholson’s feature on Ella Fitzgerald. Nicholso...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

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