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Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

02/19/2017

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0hr 0min

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Music

,Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Jim Blackman
  • Theo Bleckmann
  • Regina Carter
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater

    Director

  • Katja Duregger

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion
  • SWR/Arte

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French

Cast

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Jim Blackman

Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

Regina Carter

Self

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Self

Terri Lyne Carrington

Self

Will Friedwald

Self - music critic

Tad Hershorn

Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Sheila Jordan

Self

Dianne Reeves

Self

Judith Tick

Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University

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