Appropriately enough, the jazz world has spent recent weeks marking the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald with concerts ... and with her legs shaking with fear, Ella quickly switched gears.
The jazz singer's 1960s concert career is amply documented on record, with live albums from Berlin, LA, Tokyo and the French Riviera. Now comes a newly released concert of Fitzgerald in Oakland, Calif ...
but says she grew up with little music around her and only found her passion when after discovering a stack of Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James vinyl in a junk shop. "There was no musical heritage ...