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From School Library Journal
K-Gr 2—This bold picture book chronicles Ella Fitzgerald's early rise to stardom and centers on her friendship with Marilyn Monroe. The value of camaraderie and the determination of these two women are the running themes in this narrative. Hancocks explores how their relationship was beneficial for both parties; Monroe opening doors for Fitzgerald to sing at clubs, and Fitzgerald training Monroe to sing in movies. The gouache illustrations are bright with patterns that evoke the stylized advertising posters of the 1950s. Language reminiscent of the period ("the biggest joint in town") is peppered throughout, though it is often exceedingly vague ("some folks didn't want her singing in their club"). A biographical summary of Fitzgerald's and Monroe's lives is presented at the end of the book with a photograph of them together. VERDICT Part biography, part exaltation of the power of friendship, this title should do well in most collections.—Jessica Cline, New York Public Library
Review
Ella Queen of Jazz is a captivating tale of music, friendship and courage.―Daily Express
'This is wonderful … steeped in the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, the power of female friendship overcomes prejudice.'―Fiona Noble, The Bookseller
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New Ella Fitzgerald Biography Details Singer’s Influence on American Songwriting
Since Ella Fitzgerald’s passing in 1996, there’s now a major biography that shows the depth of her character and her lasting impact on American Music.
Written by Judith Tick an authority on American music and women in music, Judith is professor emerita at Northeastern University with award winning books and articles on music to her credit.
Ella Fitzgerald throughout her life, was a very private person, giving little information about herself and her troubled youth. With Tick’s book the author has managed to incorporate new information and new little known material on Ella’s life and cultural contributions. Tick has been able to achieve this through sources unavailable to past biographers, notably from resources of the 1930s and 1940s such as African American newspapers, some digitized as recently as 2010.
The author lovingly explains her mother’s love for Ella’s music, her mother’s being born within a year of Ella and the author’s home as she grew up being filled with the music of Ella Fitzgerald, providing a base of life long admiration for the singer which is demonstrated in the author’s writing of her subject.
Tick concentrates on the theme of “becoming” and “transforma
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Episode 18: Ella Fitzgerald
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