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Dee Dee Bridgewater · 1997 · Dear Ella (Verve), hommage à Ella Fitzgerald

Context

Track from Dear Ella, an album recorded in early 1997 as a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, who had died the previous year. It is credited to an ensemble that includes Milt Jackson and Kenny Burrell.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Cotton Tail (Dee Dee Bridgewater) (1997)
• How High the Moon (Dee Dee Bridgewater) (1997)
• Bad Spirits (2007)
• Long Time Ago (2007)
• The Griots (2007)
• Red Earth (2007)

Sources

• EN: Dear Ella

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