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GREAT PERFORMANCES presents We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/ellatribute/index.html
This web-exclusive video features concert footage from the broadcast and interviews with singer Monica Mancini and pianist George Duke, who performed in an all-star event commemorating what would have been the 90 birthday of America's beloved "First Lady of Song." This once-in-a-lifetime concert
, co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones, included Ella-inspired performances by Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, American Idol Ruben Studdard, Jon Faddis, and more. One of the longest-running performing arts anthologies on television, the award-winning GREAT PERFORMANCES series pres
ents the best in music, dance and theater. The series is a production of Thirteen/WNET New York and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, public television viewers, and PBS. Major corporate funding is provided by UBS.

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Ella was not a ... ( 1 year ago by anmoose)

Ella was not a singer. She was a master musician, and her voice was a one-of-a-kind musical instrument. ONE of the MANY things she could do with that instrument was sing.
Moosie

You're a singer, ... ( 1 year ago by jacktojack69)

You're a singer, aren't you?

Of course Ella was ... ( 1 year ago by dirtaccumulates)

Of course Ella was a singer, but much MORE.. a musician as well.

Not even a little ... ( 1 year ago by anmoose)

Not even a little bit. A musician, yes, but my voice is definitely NOT an instrument. Or at least I've never figured out how to play it...

Yeah, but my ... ( 1 year ago by anmoose)

Yeah, but my off-the-wall point was that she didn't simply sing. She "played" her voice, as a musician would play an incredible instrument.

very true, I am a ... ( 1 year ago by dirtaccumulates)

very true, I am a singer myself and I haven't ever heard anyone with that kind of vocal control.

The show was great! ... ( 1 year ago by nancy1937)

The show was great! I wish PBS would upload Nancy Wilson's performance from this event!!!

Monica Mancini is ... ( 1 year ago by filmcomposer7)

Monica Mancini is fabulous!And way, way too humble! To be honest, as a composer and music historian--I think she's better all-around than Ella Fitzgerald, even though Ella was great...I'm sorry that Ella made some of her later recordings (eg. the Jobim tribute toward the end of her life...)in which the intonation and "scatting" was dreadful...Thanks Monica for your tribute

If they did the ... ( 1 year ago by davidhazard71)

If they did the Jobim Songbook during her stay at Verve in the 60's that would have been cool, but by 1965/1966 Ella's last album with Verve was Whisper Not, after which she joined Capital, then Reprise before going to Norman's label Pablo in 1972, maybe that's why the Jobim songbook came so late

Interesting. ... ( 10 months ago by 800pieds)

Interesting. Although I love most of what she did, bossa nova was the only genre in which I did not enjoy Ella. I think the feel of her swing is not always in sync with the brazilian rythms. I'm thinking about "So danco samba". It doesn't feel right. Other than that she's still the best.

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