Ella Fitzgerald ~ Queen of Jazz

April 25, 1917 
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June 15, 1996

Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella.   

Ella Fitzgerald & Ray Charles

100th Anniversary of the Moulin Rouge, Paris, France - 1989

photo by Francis Apesteguy

Ronald Reagan & Ella Fitzgerald

Medal of Arts awards - 1987

Otto Bettmann Archives

Ella Fitzgerald with President Ronald Reagan - 1981

The Manhattan Transfer
Tim Hauser, Cheryl Bentyne, Alan Paul,
Janis Siegel & Ella Fitzgerald
Grammy Awards, Los Angeles - 1983

Ella Fitzgerald, PBS television series “Soundstage”
Chicago - November 20, 1979

Ella Fitzgerald - 1960

photo by Erling Mandelmann

Ella Fitzgerald - 1960 

photo by Carl Van Vechten

Ella Fitzgerald circa 1959

Frank Sinatra & Ella Fitzgerald - circa 1955

Oscar Peterson & Ella Fitzgerald, - 1954




Ella Fitzgerald, Vienna, - February 1954 

Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson,
Roy Eldridge & Max Roach
Stockholm, Sweden  - 1952 

Ella Fitzgerald with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, 
Milt Jackson & Timme Rosenkrantz
New York - September 1947

Ella Fitzgerald - November, 1946

photo by William P. Gottlieb

Ella Fitzgerald Official Site   

             

Ella Fitzgerald on The Viewfinder:  
         
The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book Vol. 2        
David Gates ~ First       
Verve Records ~ the inner sleeve & Norman Granz
Al Jarreau ~ Breakin' Away & scat        
Black History Month       

Ella Fitzgerald - 1945

Michael Ochs Archive

When I'm on stage I feel at home
                         ~ Ella Fitzgerald

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