Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017)

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MusicDocumentary

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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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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