Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling from New York especially for the Yardling gathering. According to George A. Kuhn, Jr., Chairman of the Smoker Committee, she will do some "double piano work" and "will sing in her own inimitably style." The "women and song" motif will be completed when "the first lady of swing," Ella Fitzgerald, gives out with some of her famous arrangements...
Star of the band is the Ella, or "Tisket A Tasket" Fitzgerald. Ella, besides being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about...
Headlining the festivities will be Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Rita Rio, and Albert Ammons, who have been engaged to supply the musical part of the program. Eldridge, colored orchestra leader form Chicago's "three Deuces" will play his famous swing trumpet to the accompaniment of a local orchestra...
Popular colored vocalist for Chick Webb's band, Ella Fitzgerald will be imported to swing several numbers in her accustomed style. Ammons will come to the Yard from the Cafe Society in New York to demonstrate the boogiewoogie style of piano playing...
Married. Donald Ogden Stewart, 44, humorist, screen writer, head of Hollywood's Anti-Nazi League; and Lenore Winter Steffens ("Ella Winter"), 40, writer, once married to the late Author-Journalist Lincoln Steffens; both for the second time;* in Ventura, Calif...