Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017)
Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017)
Ella Fitzgerald's voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had the perfect pitch and perfect intonation. Ella's voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless. There is almost no style of music, in which she did not excel, and her numerous - now legendary - recordings of the 'Great American Songbook' with pieces of US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harald Arlen, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington, remained a benchmark for the "right" interpretation of those songs for generations of singers. In the film the focus will be on the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. We want to unravel the secret of her voice through many different people (musicians, singers, critics etc.), who will tell about what impact her voice had on them and still has. We want to learn more about Ella´s life to find out what made her sing like she did and only she could.

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Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald As: Self (archive footage)
Jim Blackman Jim Blackman As: Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager
Theo Bleckmann Theo Bleckmann As: Self
Regina Carter Regina Carter As: Self
Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Bridgewater As: Self
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Ella Fitzgerald's voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had the perfect pitch and perfect intonation. Ella's voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless. There is almost no style of music, in which she did not excel, and her numerous - now legendary - recordings of the 'Great American Songbook' with pieces of US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harald Arlen, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington, remained a benchmark for the "right" interpretation of those songs for generations of singers. In the film the focus will be on the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. We want to unravel the secret of her voice through many different people (musicians, singers, critics etc.), who will tell about what impact her voice had on them and still has. We want to learn more about Ella´s life to find out what made her sing like she did and only she could.


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Genres: Music, Documentary

Language: English, Français

Release Date: 19 February 2017

Country: DE

Company Credits

Company: TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion, SWR/Arte

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Cast

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Jim Blackman

Jim Blackman

Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

Theo Bleckmann

Theo Bleckmann

Self

Regina Carter

Regina Carter

Self

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Self

Terri Lyne Carrington

Terri Lyne Carrington

Self

Will Friedwald

Will Friedwald

Self - music critic

Tad Hershorn

Tad Hershorn

Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Sheila Jordan

Sheila Jordan

Self

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

Self

Judith Tick

Judith Tick

Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University

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Writing Credits

Katja Duregger

Katja Duregger

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