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...DIED. ELLA MAE MORSE, 75, ebullient, genre-defying vocalist whose Cow-Cow Boogie was Capitol Records' first million-selling hit; in Bullhead City, Ariz. Among Morse's other signatures were House of Blue Lights, Shoo-Shoo Baby, and Mister Five by Five...
Long, Ken Burns-ish shots of grass and Ella Fitzgerald songs seem bizarrely out of place in this documentary of a teenager's murder, and yet such embellishments make it no less compelling. The film retraces the life of Teena Brandon, who in her early adolescence left her Nebraska hometown and began posing as a boy, Brandon Teena. As Brandon, she won the hearts of many girls but died tragically, killed by two male friends who were furious that they'd been duped. Interviews with her killers (one is on death row) provide a chilling portrait of intolerance...
...Basie instrumentals, I included Every Day. It was the hit tune of our all-time hit album, Sing a Song of Basie. We recorded an album with Joe and Basie, and then we were touring together, usually accompanied by jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald. It was during these tours that we became family. I remember generous, gracious Joe Williams would teach us how to bow collectively at the end of the evening. We didn't know what we were doing, but with him choreographing we were precise, orderly, beautiful...
...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...