...Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1918, in Newport News, Virginia, but spent her formative years in Yonkers, New York, and received her musical education in its public schools. When only 16, she received her first big break at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, when she won an amateur night contest and impressed saxophonistbandleader Benny Carter. He recommended her to drummer-bandleader Chick Webb, who hired her in 1935. She soon became a recording star with the band, and her own composition "A-tisket, A-tasket"(1938) was such a smash hit that the song became her trademark for many years thereafter. When Webb died in 1939, Fitzgerald assumed leadership of the band for the next year. By 1940 Fitzgerald was recognized throughout the music world as a vocal marvel - a singer with clarity of tone, flexibility of range, fluency of rhythm, and, above all, a talent for improvisation that was equally effective on ballads and up-tempo tunes. Although for a long time her reputation with musicians and other singers outstripped that with the general public, she corrected the imbalance soon after joining Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) in 1946. She made annual tours with the group and was invariably the concert favorite. Three of her unfailing show-stoppers were "Oh, Lady Be Good," "Stomping at the Savoy," and "How High the Moon." Each would begin at a medium tempo and then turn into a rhythmic excursion as Fitzgerald moved up-tempo...
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...Angela Marie Murphy American Literature Ella Fitzgerald “ The First Lady of Song “ LaKeah Wilkins March 11,2013 Ella Fitzgerald was born to William and Temperance Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. Ella’s parent’s divorced when she was only a month old and her mother moved them to Yonkers, New York to live with her mother. Her mother had another daughter in 1923 by her second husband. To help her struggling family, Ella helped out by working as a messenger “ running numbers “, and acted as a lookout for a brothel. Her first love was to become a dancer. In 1932, Ella’s mother Temperance died from a heart attack, and Ella and her sister was sent to live with her aunt. During this time, Ella began getting in trouble with the police and her aunt sent her to a reform school. She later ran away and lived on the streets of New York during the Great Depression. At the age of seventeen Ella’s name was picked in the weekly drawing to perform at the Apollo, where she was given the opportunity to compete in amateur night. On this night, she had planned to dance until she saw her competition. Not knowing what she was going to do after what she had seen, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song “ Judy “ by Connee Bowell. After winning on this...
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...Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt. Then, offer commentary regarding the similarities and differences between the examples. | Back In Your Own Back Yard (Billie Holiday) | Flying Home (Ella Fitzgerald) | Similarities and Differences | Tempo (slow, medium, fast, dance-like?) | Medium / Slow Tempo | Medium / Fast Tempo | Back Yard is different as slower tempo, as Flying Home is more faster/up-beat | Swing feel (Do you sense a weak, medium, or strong rhythmic pulse? Which song has a stronger pulse?) | Medium pulse | Strong pulse | Medium pulse Strong pulse Flying Home has a stronger pulse | Syncopation (Is there evidence of syncopation or tugging and pulling against the musical pulse?) | Tugging/Pulling background of Lester Young playing the Sax. | Guitar elements give like a dirtier sound. There is disorienting being heard | The syncopation seems to be more apparent with the tone in Flying Home; pure and supple tone compared to Backyard. | Lyrics (What story, if any, is told by lyrics each artist sings?)...
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...Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt. Then, offer commentary regarding the similarities and differences between the examples. Back In Your Own Back Yard (Billie Holiday) Flying Home (Ella Fitzgerald) Similarities and Differences Tempo (slow, medium, fast, dance-like?) Medium/slow Medium/Fast (BPM) Back Yard is different as slower tempo, as Flying Home is more faster/up-beat Swing feel (Do you sense a weak, medium, or strong rhythmic pulse? Which song has a stronger pulse?) Medium pulse Strong pulse Flying Home has a stronger pulse Syncopation (Is there evidence of syncopation or tugging and pulling against the musical pulse?) Tugging/Pulling background of Lester Young playing the Sax. Guitar elements give like a dirtier sound. There is disorienting being heard. The syncopation seems to be more apparent with the tone in Flying Home; pure and supple tone compared to Backyard. Lyrics (What story, if any, is told by lyrics each artist sings?) That you left your happiness at home, in the backyard. Hard to say because...
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...Ella Fitzgerald By: Anna Eichinger Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25th 1997, in Newport News Virginia. Ella Fitzgerald is what I would call a cinderella success story. She was born into a normal family with a mother and father, but just months after she was born, her parents seperated. Ella moved to Yonkers, New York with her mother and her long time boyfriend, eventually she married and had another child. They lived a happy life, but in the year 1932, Ella's mother died from injuries she received in a car accident. Just a few weeks later, her step-father suffered a sever heart attack and also died. This forced Ella to move in with her aunt. Ella had a very hard time adjusting to her new life. She began skipping school and getting into quite a bit of trouble, eventually dropping out of high school, getting into some trouble with the law. Ella was then forced into to a reform school,but in fall of 1934, Ella ran away from the reform school in hopes of becoming a singer or dancer. She lived on the streets for years, until she entered an amateur singing contest in Harlem at the Apollo Theater. That night, she won $25 for first place and the attention of Chick Webb. Mr. Webb was the key to kickstarting Ella's career, her first recording was "Love and Kisses" which was released in 1938. Just three years later, Ella made her first hit, "A-Tisket-A-Tasket". And a few months later, she came out with "I Found My Yellow Basket", This climbed to number three on the charts...
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...The definition of Renaissance is the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning. The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American cultural movement that focused on literature, music, theater, art, and politics. The Harlem Renaissance is important because it’s something that brought African Americans together as a whole. It allowed them to get the opportunities that people tried to strip them of. This was being human and normal. After the war the African American people began to migrate to Harlem and that’s when it all started. Harlem was the place the largest group of African Americans moved to during the African American Great Migration. Most African Americans came for work and a hope for a new life. Places such as The Apollo Theater and The Cotton Club, and Musicians, Writers and Actors were a part of the Harlem Renaissance. That’s what made the Harlem Renaissance. It was time for a cultural celebration.” African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. The end of bondage had not brought the Promised Land many had envisioned.” “The Harlem Renaissance” ushistory, Independence Hall Association, 22 May 2014, http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp , 2008-2014 A music theater that has history, which means it wasn’t an ordinary place. An extraordinary place called the Apollo Theater. The Apollo Theater is located in Harlem, New York on 125th Avenue between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglas...
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...Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt. Then, offer commentary regarding the similarities and differences between the examples. | Back In Your Own Back Yard (Billie Holiday) | Flying Home (Ella Fitzgerald) | Similarities and Differences | Tempo (slow, medium, fast, dance-like?) | Medium | Fast | Back Yard has a lower tempo, as Flying Home is more faster/upbeat. | Swing feel (Do you sense a weak, medium, or strong rhythmic pulse? Which song has a stronger pulse?) | Medium | Strong | Flying Home has a stronger pulse. | Syncopation (Is there evidence of syncopation or tugging and pulling against the musical pulse?) | Tugging | Pulling | The syncopation seems to be more apparent with the tone in Flying Home, pure and supple compared with Back Yard. | Lyrics (What story, if any, is told by lyrics each artist sings?) | You left happiness at home, in the backyard. | It seems to have a feel of freedom to be flying home. | Two different stories being told with similar subjects on life, yet there is happiness in both...
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...In the novel Waterlily the researcher/historian Ella Cara Deloria shows that women in Dakota society occupied subordinate positions to their male counterparts. The gender inequalities come early in the book as Blue Bird and her grandmother are members of low station in their tribe “without any male relatives to give them backing” (pg 11). They do not take part in the activities and gift-giving ceremonies that mark a camp circles culture. They are looked upon as an act of the tribes charity and relegated to the background. In contrast Blue Bird’s future husband Rainbow distraught over the loss of his first wife roams the plains encountering many camp circles where he is treated as an honorable guest and even is able to enter into Kola, a friendship of high honor and responsibility with a member of another camp circle. Blue Bird and her grandmother are only able to gain social standing by entering through marriage into a tiyospaye, literally group of tipis. This was the social structure upon which Dakota camps were built. A tiyospaye was a group of related families (usually through the important sibling bond) who practiced cooperative living. The greater production of the large group allowed individuals to specialize such as Dream Woman’s craft and quillwork, Black Eagle as a warrior, and Rainbow as a hunter, which would reflect well on the tiyospaye and increase its prestige. In a tiyospaye men, specifically brothers were all important as the brother would protect and hunt...
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