Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

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Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald's voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had the perfect pitch and perfect intonation. Ella's voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless. There is almost no style of music, in which she did not excel, and her numerous - now legendary - recordings of the 'Great American Songbook' with pieces of US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harald Arlen, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington, remained a benchmark for the "right" interpretation of those songs for generations of singers. In the film the focus will be on the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. We want to unravel the secret of her voice through many different people (musicians, singers, critics etc.), who will tell about what impact her voice had on them and still has. We want to learn more about Ella´s life to find out what made her sing like she did and only she could.

Release Date

2017-02-19

Year

2017

Status

Released

Score

8.00

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Cast

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

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Jim Blackman

Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann

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Regina Carter

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington

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Will Friedwald

Self - music critic

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Tad Hershorn

Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

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Sheila Jordan

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves