ELLA FITZGERALD Jazz Icons Live in 1957 and 1963

Time: 54 40 The First Lady of Jazz performs evergreens of the classic vocal jazz. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917 1996), also known as Lady Ella and the First Lady of Song, is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a hornlike improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Over a recording career that lasted 57 years, she was the winner of 14 Grammy Awards, and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.