Sweet Georgia Brown - Metropole Orkest - 1981

Sweet Georgia Brown - Metropole Orkest cond. by Rogier van Otterloo (1981) Soloist: Ella Fitzgerald (voc) Metropole Orkest: 75 Years in Perspective - Its Past, its Present, its Future 4th Decade (1976 - 1985) Permission to use this material granted by AVROTROS Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She became nationally known toward the end of the Thirties with the band of drummer Chick Webb particularly with her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket". After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Once Norman Granz, founder of the Verve record label, started producing some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. N.B.: at the beginning of the video Ella's then guitarist Joe Pass can be heard and (vaguely) seen. Credits & Acknowledgements Music selection: Friederike Darius, Annie Tangberg, Dick Bakker, Jan Bastiani, Max Boeree, Henk Heijink, Paul Schooneman, Fred Dekker Design & Production: Jolien Plat, Marvin Schruba Audio supervision: Dirk Overeem Text and Narrative: Fred Dekker Concept: Fred Dekker Every measure has been taken to avoid infringement of rights of makers and performers of the music, videos, pictures and photographs used in this Perspective. Nevertheless, if you think that - in spite of these measures - you can rightfully claim one or more of such rights, please send an e-mail to [email protected] Metropole Orkest Facebook:   / metropole.orchestra   YouTube:    / metropoleorchestra   Twitter:   / metropoleorkest   Instagram:   / metropoleorkest   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/metropo...