Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017)

Music Documentary

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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  • Release Date: 2017-02-19
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Director: Katja Duregger

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Cast

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jim Blackman

    Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

  • Theo Bleckmann

    Self

  • Regina Carter

    Self

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater

    Self

  • Terri Lyne Carrington

    Self

  • Will Friedwald

    Self - music critic

  • Tad Hershorn

    Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

  • Sheila Jordan

    Self

  • Dianne Reeves

    Self

  • Judith Tick

    Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University

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