Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald
20178.0
Music, Documentary
- Genre
- Music
- Origin
- Germany
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in Sweden.
Details
- Director
- Katja Duregger
- Writing
- Katja Duregger
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Feb 19, 2017
- Studio
- TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion, SWR/Arte
Cast
Ella Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage)
Jim Blackman
Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager
Theo Bleckmann
Self
Regina Carter
Self
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Self
Terri Lyne Carrington
Self
Will Friedwald
Self - music critic
Tad Hershorn
Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
Sheila Jordan
Self
Dianne Reeves
Self
Judith Tick
Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University
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