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Ella Fitzgerald And Andre Previn Do Gershwin

Label: Pablo Today  – D2312140

Format: Vinyl,  LP,  Gatefold

Country: US Release, 1983

Genre: Jazz, Swing, Vocal

Vinyl NM with no visible surface wear, no scratches, clean labels. Sleeve NM, intact edges, no splitting, no cut-outs, no ring wear, clean and unmarked, no writing, no stains, no price stickers. Very faint surface wear from age, use, storage and handling.

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Ella Jane Fitzgerald   (April   25, 1917   – June   15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable   diction, phrasing, timing,   intonation,   absolute pitch, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her   scat singing. After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the   Chick Webb   Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the   Savoy Ballroom   in   Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to   Norman Granz, who founded   Verve Records   to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve, she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the   Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald also appeared in films and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century. Outside her solo career, she created music with   Louis Armstrong,   Duke Ellington, and   The Ink Spots. These partnerships produced songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, after a career of nearly sixty years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at age 79 after years of declining health.   Her accolades   included 14   Grammy Awards, the   National Medal of Arts, the   NAACP's inaugural   President's Award, and the   Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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André Previn  (April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three major genres:  Hollywood films,  jazz, and  classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he  arranged  and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated pianist, accompanist to singers, and interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer. Before the age of twenty, Previn began arranging and composing for  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved in the music of more than fifty films and would win four  Academy Awards. He won ten  Grammy Awards, for recordings in all three areas of his career, and then one more, for  lifetime achievement. He served as music director of the  Houston Symphony Orchestra  (1967–1969), principal conductor of the  London Symphony Orchestra  (1968–1979), music director of the  Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra  (1976–1984), of the  Los Angeles Philharmonic  (1985–1989), chief conductor of the  Royal Philharmonic  (1985–1992), and, after a break from salaried posts, chief conductor of the  Oslo Philharmonic  (2002–2006). He also regularly conducted the  Vienna Philharmonic.