Today’s Listen:
Dee Dee Bridgewater -- DEAR ELLA
with / Duet, Trio, Combo, Big Band, Orchestra.
Dee Dee’s tribute to her Idol. Excellent Booklet, that includes a picture of Dee Dee and Ella sitting together at an reception at the American Embassy in Paris, where Ella had received an award from the French State.
...."there I found an exhausted Ella Fitzgerald, sitting all alone on a couch. All the perfunctory salutations had been made, and everyone had gone off to bask in the glory of being the privileged elite invited to the embassy, where Ella was the pretext for being seen. We spoke at length about the solitude of being on the road, the hardships of absentee motherhood, the woes of keeping ones voice, the problems of remembering lyrics, due to fatigue and the constant changing of countries, hotels, venues. I remember being angered by the superficiality of the invited guest. At least that’s how they seemed to me."
I like this woman.
a-tisket, a-tasket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igEkzTh_F6M mack the knife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40OSTPU6y8 how high the moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvYq1Vh4PB4 my heart belongs to daddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGcMv34fNk8 if you can’t sing it, you’ll have to swing it (mr paganini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDb7upj-uBI Cheers
Btw, Outstanding playing by the backing groups, of all sizes.