Word: ella
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...first artists signed to Atlantic Records' fledgling jazz division in 1955. This compilation, drawn from her 12 albums for the label--most long unavailable--is proof she could hold her own in such rarefied company. Her virtues: a voice nearly as pure and clear as Ella Fitzgerald's, yet spiked at times with a smoky, un-Ella-like sensuality; and a deeply personal, even abstract sense of phrasing. How can you not like a singer who's brassy enough to belt Summertime as hard as if it were Hit the Road Jack and nervy enough to tackle a vocal version...
Children who have read Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family will find it easy to picture immigrant life by imagining Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie calling on friends in what is now the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a restored tenement building on Orchard Street...
...brought the Panazz players back to light up Symphony Hall again this year. They performed last March for the first time in the Boston area and were back before Thanksgiving with more steel drum action. Opening the concert was Ken "Professor" Philmore, who has performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente and Cassandra Wilson in the past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning his professional career...
...very look of the place is atypical: gone are the origami sculptures and cafeteria-like counters; waitresses in kimonos are nowhere to be found. Instead, Ella Fitzgerald croons from the stereo and marbled black tables are lit by suspended pearlate lamps. A richly-patterned curtain is elegantly draped to frame the window and an enormous fish tank full of exotic fish is sunk into the wall above the sushi...
Last week's Crimson survey found several students who cited the recent Ella Fitzgerald orgy as "awesome...