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Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. [2] She was the daughter of William Ashland Fitzgerald, a transfer wagon driver from Blackstone, Virginia, and Temperance "Tempie" Henry, both described as mulatto in the 1920 census. [3]
The adopted son of Ray Brown and Ella Fitzgerald, he was born in New York City, on August 13, 1949, to Fitzgerald's half-sister Frances. Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and many others were regular visitors during his childhood. [1] After moving to California when he was 10, Ray discovered a passion for the drums and for singing.
Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American jazz double bassist, known for his extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.He was also a founding member of the group that would later develop into the Modern Jazz Quartet.
It is staggeringly and almost unconventionally amicable: The children, Cole and Ella (named for John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald—Emhoff is a jazz enthusiast), call Harris “Momala”; Momala ...
Houdini's first version bore the title "He Had It Coming." It was recorded in 1946 by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five on Decca and later included in the Ella Fitzgerald album Ella and Her Fellas. The lively tone of the music is matched by the use of dark humor in the lyrics.
The vice president is known as Momala to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children. ... Harris explained that Cole and Ella are named after jazz icons John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald, and it’s ...
Ella and Oscar is a 1975 album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by pianist Oscar Peterson and, for the second half of the album, double bassist Ray Brown. [2]Fitzgerald's two previous albums with piano accompaniment were 1950's Ella Sings Gershwin (with Ellis Larkins) and 1960's Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph with Paul Smith.
R&B legend Freda Payne (center) leads the cast of "Ella, First Lady of Song," running at Rochester Hills' Meadow Brook Theatre through June 23, 2024.