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Her Ella in Berlin live album ended up winning awards for the jazz queen. The mistake won Ella Fitzgerald a Grammy “Mack the Knife” wasn’t Fitzgerald’s first Grammy win, nor would it be ...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook, The First Lady Of Song performed selections from that album live at the Hollywood Bowl. Conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, who also arranged ...
Ella Fitzgerald made history on May 4, 1959, as the first woman to win a Grammy Award. The “First Lady of Song” took home two ...
The museum's "Ella at 100: Celebrating the Artistry of Ella Fitzgerald" exhibition includes the first Grammy Award that Fitzgerald won — the first awarded to an African-American woman — as ...
This was true from the first album in this series, 1956’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, which entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In Ella’s hands, and with charts by ...
All the winners for the Grammy album of the year since 1959. From Henry Mancini's 'The Music From Peter Gunn ... Ella Fitzgerald and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Sinatra, however, ...
A list of all the albums by Black women that have competed for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. 1959: Ella Fiztgerlad, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (winner: Henry ...
The Grammy Museum is remembering the life of the unparelleled Ella Fitzgerald during this, her centennial year, with a new exhibit called "Ella at 100: Celebrating the Artistry of Ella Fitzgerald." ...
This award was presented to Ella Fitzgerald by The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), in 1990. It is a medium-brown stained wood base with a gold-tone gramophone on top and ...
A new album documents jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald in concert in Oakland, California, in 1967. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.