Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

2017
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Music Documentary
Overview

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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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion SWR/Arte
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
English French

Keywords

woman director

Quick Facts

Release Date February 19, 2017
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt6822272

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

Key Crew

Katja Duregger
Director
Katja Duregger
Screenplay