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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney
3.0
This book tells the basic steps in the career of Ella Fitzgerald. There's not a whole lot about her life other than the stages of her music career. She never knew her dad, and her mom died when she was a teen. Other than that, the rest of the book is about her singing career. She started singing on her own and won the talent contest at the Apollo Theater. Then she sang with Chick Webb's jazz band. Then she sang be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie's band and learned her trademark, scat.
I thought that this book was pretty good. I had heard of Ella Fitzgerald, but I didn't know many of the details of her career. I grew a little tired of the "slam-bamming on the flitter-tip" language of the book.
This would be a good book to connect literature and music. It would also be a nice way to get someone interested in finding more details or researching a subject. It could also be used to discuss race relations, as Ella's fans spanned racial barriers.
I thought that this book was pretty good. I had heard of Ella Fitzgerald, but I didn't know many of the details of her career. I grew a little tired of the "slam-bamming on the flitter-tip" language of the book.
This would be a good book to connect literature and music. It would also be a nice way to get someone interested in finding more details or researching a subject. It could also be used to discuss race relations, as Ella's fans spanned racial barriers.