FIRST TIME REACTING TO | Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon

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@jimmyaye4204
@jimmyaye4204 Жыл бұрын
If you made a list of the greatest female vocalists of all time and put Ella's name at the top you wouldn't get too many arguments. And yes, the term is "scatting" and Ella was hands down the best scat singer ever.
@brittreacts
@brittreacts Жыл бұрын
she is great!
@juliebarrows8149
@juliebarrows8149 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the duet she did with Karen Carpenter on the tv special “Music! Music! Music!”. Two exceptional female singers!
@thomasdempsey721
@thomasdempsey721 7 ай бұрын
Mel Torme would be a rival!
@user-rm5vl8gf7k
@user-rm5vl8gf7k Жыл бұрын
"With a voice like Ella's ringin' out there's no way the band could lose"-Stevie Wonder
@AnthonyCiulla
@AnthonyCiulla Жыл бұрын
What Ella did when she was scatting was essentially playing the instrument lead solo. Her voice was her instrument and she was arguably the best instrumentalist in that band - which was made up of legends in Jazz. Technically, the notes she hit were perfect, nuanced, virtuoso.
@pgrigg
@pgrigg Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I think of it as the vocalist "being" an instrument, often the lead trumpet, but other instruments too.
@ed.z.
@ed.z. Жыл бұрын
Ella Fitzgerald is quoting Charlie Parker “Bird” especially his song “Ornithology” based on the chord structure of “How High The Moon”. An extremely hip thing for Ella to to do. Another reason to love her forever. Marilyn Monroe loved Ella and gave her performances a boost by attending her club gigs, and sitting in the audience, every night, during a difficult period. It worked beautifully.
@jonk6513
@jonk6513 Жыл бұрын
It’s a jazz horn solo played with one’s voice. Think of it like that.
@RubyGB
@RubyGB Жыл бұрын
The duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are musical heaven...
@KittCrescendo
@KittCrescendo Жыл бұрын
Yesss!
@bendancar
@bendancar Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!! Check out their duets "Stars Fell on Alabama" or "Moonlight in Vermont." Music doesn't get much better.
@richardkawucha1232
@richardkawucha1232 11 ай бұрын
Listen to Ella "Queen of Skat" Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing "Summertime", or her and Louie Prima singing "Baby It's Cold Outside". In her slower songs her voice is as smooth as butter.
@michellelaguerre8760
@michellelaguerre8760 6 ай бұрын
I totally agree
@An_Cat_Dubh
@An_Cat_Dubh 21 күн бұрын
Love me some Ella. She was a master of scat singing (among other things). Her "Song Book" recordings of composers like Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, etc. are an American treasure. As mentioned at Wikipedia: 'They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the Great American Songbook. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians. As Ira Gershwin said, in the line quoted in every obituary: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." Most of the rest of us didn't know, either. By the time she had gone through the entire canon, songs that had been pigeonholed as show tunes or jazz novelties or faded relics of Tin Pan Alley had become American classical music, the property and pride of everyone."'
@anthonygrillo6109
@anthonygrillo6109 Жыл бұрын
Your facial expressions are priceless.
@FuturologyTheMusical
@FuturologyTheMusical Жыл бұрын
Skating is when the vocal becomes a musical instrument that solos over the track just like a sax or even a guitar solo would do. Mostly mimicking how a horn would solo.
@marleybob3157
@marleybob3157 Жыл бұрын
If you are exploring jazz (and I highly suggest you do) and you enjoy scat, I suggest you cover anything by Ella and Louis Armstrong. They recorded three LP's together in the late 1950's and it is as good as anything ever recorded. I'd start with "Can't We Be Friends." I'd also check out other great scatters like Mel Tormé (I'd start with "Lullaby Of Birdland"), Joe Williams ("Every Day (I Have The Blues)"), Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ("Everybody's Boppin'"), King Pleasure ("Moody's Mood For Love"), Sarah Vaughan (Doodlin') and Anita O'Day ("Tea for Two").
@hobbypassion
@hobbypassion Жыл бұрын
I love Ella. Try her singing 'Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered'. It's incredible.
@way2deep100
@way2deep100 Жыл бұрын
All I know is Ella once said she was thankful for scatting because she had a lot of trouble remembering lyrics. Louis Armstrong told her that during a studio session, he was reading the lyrics to a Ragtime song and when he turned the page, the words were missing. The whole band were being recorded ensemble in those days, so he carried on but was kind of fooling around by singing random syllables because he expected they'd do another take. I don't think she named the song and I don't know if she was suggesting Satchmo therefore performed the first recorded scat, but the recording is out there because the producer decided a retake wasn't necessary.
@tommarks3726
@tommarks3726 Жыл бұрын
Ella singing Summertime in 1968 i believe is outstanding. Just her and the trio behind her. True talent,
@browniewin4121
@browniewin4121 Жыл бұрын
She is among the greatest singers of all time.
@wbiassociates
@wbiassociates Жыл бұрын
So glad you reacted to Ella this way - she was in full flight, and showed out (as usual). Ella and her music: a marriage made in Heaven!!
@user-wf9py1es9z
@user-wf9py1es9z Жыл бұрын
You are the definition of what a reactor should be!! So fun to watch and interesting to hear your words of wisdom.. ❤
@chadjohns6955
@chadjohns6955 Жыл бұрын
Ella is one of the most professional, clean singers ever. Cole Porter was in love with her diction. I love Ella, but my favorite is Billie Holiday, to whom she's often compared. Ella would professionally sing a song the same, every time, quality, consistent. Billie on the other hand, I would buy every record of hers in used record stores, even with the same song list as I already had in my collection, because she sang it different every time based on her emotions, feeling, age, etc.
@frankiebowie6174
@frankiebowie6174 11 ай бұрын
I respectfully disagree. I saw one of Ella‘s last performances, and even though I know her catalog through and through, I heard her, in her failing health, sing some of her standards with tricks she hadn’t done before. I came away impressed by her endless curiosity and inventiveness. Billie and Ella are two of my favorites, so no hate here. Ms. Holiday also reworked her great hits to suit the times and her insights.
@chadjohns6955
@chadjohns6955 11 ай бұрын
@@frankiebowie6174 That's fair, and you are probably quite right, in her advanced age. I guess it was more that Billie was almost just going performance by performance with a different pace, tone, emotion to a song seemingly with each recording, as a rule, not the exception
@WilliamGreer
@WilliamGreer Ай бұрын
Ella Fitzgerald is the absolute queen of jazz. Nothing compares to her voice like an ocean of cream, with all its crests and waves but all smooth and unparalleled.
@rickpallas2001
@rickpallas2001 Жыл бұрын
Scat singing.. simply a representation of the voice as a jazz instrumental. It started during the jazz era.
@conniedean1977
@conniedean1977 Жыл бұрын
Ella is my all time fave jazz singer. Check out anything she sang and you will not be disappointed. Also, she performed several duets with Louis Armstrong-one reviewer said she was a fine Cabernet and Louis was a shot of whiskey. Delicious! 🎶🍷🥃
@ellalena1873
@ellalena1873 Жыл бұрын
there was absolutely nobody could hold a candle to her. never ever ever. and everyone in the business knew it.
@pres96ton
@pres96ton Жыл бұрын
Ella went to amateur night at the APOLLO THEATER and was going to dance, but the 2 girls before her did a dance in a way she knew she could not follow so she went out and sang......her voice can mimic any instrument in the band...and her improvs when SCATTING was so good that the musicians would come and listen to her because her improvs were great
@AP-gb3eh
@AP-gb3eh Жыл бұрын
Ella was a queen, as I’m sure someone has said Scatting was a vocalist using their voice as a instrument. The originality of each performance is a huge part of the Jazz experience. You commune with Jazz
@herbertragan5849
@herbertragan5849 Жыл бұрын
The first recorded Scat goes back to 1926 when Louis Armstrong forgot the words to “Heebie Jeebies” and he just started riffing on the melody.
@DavidLongo22
@DavidLongo22 Жыл бұрын
When music was an art, Ella was truly an artist.
@barryyoung969
@barryyoung969 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! Britt, you may be the first reactor, to review Ella Fitzgerald. She is like a musical instrument. She is one of the top American vocalists ever! And the 1970s she used to do a commercial for Memorex recording tape. And she could break a glass with her voice, and the commercial showed even that recording on their tape could break a glass as well.
@greendragonpublishing
@greendragonpublishing Жыл бұрын
TwinsistheNewTrend did a Ella Fitzgerald song... but more should!!
@sudelaine8653
@sudelaine8653 Жыл бұрын
WingsOfPegasus reacted to/analyzed Ella twice.
@barryyoung969
@barryyoung969 Жыл бұрын
@@sudelaine8653 I watch Fil I need to track that one down
@victorjohnson7512
@victorjohnson7512 Жыл бұрын
Scatting was a jazz concept using the human voice as an instrument. There was a man named "Scatman Crothers" who sang and also acted in TV and movies...
@davidspencer8711
@davidspencer8711 Жыл бұрын
I love your analogy: Scat is to singing as speaking in tongues is to praying
@mamaflush9945
@mamaflush9945 Жыл бұрын
As I understand it, Scatt singing has its origins in West Africa. However, the style of singing we are accustomed to hearing, was made popular by the late great "Louis Armstrong." The origin of scatting has been lost in history although, Armstrong has long been credited with having been the inventor of the technique. As the story goes--Armstrong and his Hot Five(band) were in a recording session in Chicago in 1926, when his music stand toppled over "scattering" the sheets of music that he was about to sing. In frustration, he began to sing nonsense symbols to the tune of the song he was to record...and thus "Scatting" was born. Or so they story goes as I have read. lol 😆 Here's another suggestion to another "Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime 1968" and here's a suggestion for "Louis Armstrong - When The Saint's Go Marching In (on The Ed Sullivan Show)" I really enjoyed this lovely reaction thanx Britt.
@marleybob3157
@marleybob3157 Жыл бұрын
Ella is my musical GOAT. I love this woman.
@KittCrescendo
@KittCrescendo Жыл бұрын
Same.
@brigittesaunders3943
@brigittesaunders3943 Жыл бұрын
Scat is good vocal exercise. Makes good use of vowels. If one can identify the vowels during this as well as use of ranges by using them clearly despite the speed at which it's used...that's talent. Most of us would be tripping over our tongues.
@gidneyandcloyd
@gidneyandcloyd Жыл бұрын
At that point where you asked what “that technique” was, I believe what was going on there was she was mimicking a musician of that time named Slam Stewart. He was a bassist who often bowed his bass during solos and “sang along” with himself in a similar manner. As for the origin of scat, the story I read was that Louis Armstrong was in the middle of recording a song when a sheet with the lyrics fell on the floor, prompting him to improvise with words that weren’t really words, as Ella did here. He may have already done that sort of thing in person, but that was scat’s first appearance on record.
@jamesrawlins735
@jamesrawlins735 Жыл бұрын
So great to see a reaction to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest singers ever. I would love you to also react to the 2 other giant vocalists of that period: Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. All 3 women have very different vocal techniques and sound. Btw, scatting is definitely an early influence on rap.
@robertkampfer8293
@robertkampfer8293 Жыл бұрын
Absolute freedom, but within absolute musical discipline.
@andywalker8064
@andywalker8064 Ай бұрын
She is one in a million. Literally.
@ed.z.
@ed.z. Жыл бұрын
You said it sister, Ella is good medicine. The brightest star to ever shine.
@beauvaismichelle
@beauvaismichelle Жыл бұрын
She is one of my all-time favorites. A vocal master and absolute master of scatting. So glad you have experienced this. She could listen to the band and vocalize like she was one of the band instruments.
@phoye3301
@phoye3301 Жыл бұрын
The great Ella Fitzgerald❤. Your appreciation for all the styles of music is refreshing. It’s fun to hear your take on what you review.
@robertsterner2145
@robertsterner2145 Жыл бұрын
A jazz scholar has said that her vocal in this song quotes scores of jazz horn solos...I definitely hear some Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and of course she has "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Surrey with the Fringe on Top."
@skbirds
@skbirds Жыл бұрын
Listening to Ella is always sublime, but watching you listen to her is the cherry on top I never knew I needed lol
@ed.z.
@ed.z. Жыл бұрын
Yes. You decode her improvisation. It’s the language of Bebop Jazz. An art form stared by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Barry Harris, Sonny Stitt, and several others.
@joel65913
@joel65913 Жыл бұрын
Ella had such fantastic control of her instrument. She could let it rip with scat as she does here but then turn right around and cradle you into a peaceful place with a song like "This Time the Dream's On Me". Between 1956 and 1964 she recorded and released an awesome collection of what were termed Songbooks comprised of the works of eight of the most important composers or composing partners of the mid-20th Century (Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer). Every single one a priceless gem.
@ronbock8291
@ronbock8291 Жыл бұрын
Ella is a once a century type of talent.
@allendesalme197
@allendesalme197 Жыл бұрын
Ella was the best scat singer ever...listen to Gary Valenciano doing Spain on the Wish Bus for some incredible scat singing...
@Brooke-rw8rc
@Brooke-rw8rc Жыл бұрын
The GASP i let out when I saw you were reacting to Ella!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 I haven't even started the video yet, i just wanted to pop down and lyk i am SHAKING with excitement!
@Brooke-rw8rc
@Brooke-rw8rc Жыл бұрын
Also, scatting is doing a horn solo with your voice. The words mean nothing because all that's important is the melodies she's coming up with on the spot. So when she uses different syllables, it's just to add tone to her melody lines.
@Brooke-rw8rc
@Brooke-rw8rc Жыл бұрын
Oh! Fun fact! horn players are ALSO scatting when they play. Tonguing is when you use the tongue to separate notes, which basically means using T, D, L, and K sounds while playing. On top of that, different vowels shapes make different sounds depending on how high or low you're playing (generally, you use "oo" for low notes and "ee" for high notes), so horn players are actually saying things like "diddly squiddle iddle little tippity squat" while playing. if they didn't, they wouldn't be playing crisp notes and the melody would come out slurred.
@joeynail6049
@joeynail6049 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing. Think of the thousands of lucky people to hear The Queen.
@kathylee1261
@kathylee1261 Жыл бұрын
4 octave range. She was a miracle.
@ricknakvasil6211
@ricknakvasil6211 Жыл бұрын
One of the most memorable concerts I saw was in '87 when Ella sang with Oscar Peterson playing the piano. She was 70 years old and still sounding incredible. I will forever cherish her version of the old tune Manhattan her version of Misty and so many more. Thanks for passing this great lady onto future generations with your video.
@marleybob3157
@marleybob3157 Жыл бұрын
I saw her that same year at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She was near the end of her performing career and she was still incredible.
@sethleon2158
@sethleon2158 Жыл бұрын
Louis Armstrong was the original scat singer although in quite a different style than Ella. When I listen to West End Blus by Louis it brings tears to my eyes. Ella was probably the best scat singer. Other greats would include Mel Torme, and Betty Carter. The best pure singer in Jazz or any other popular music idiom in my opinion is Sarah Vaughan. Sarah could also scat, but her ability to take a note, bend and morph it and make it and anyone listening turn liquid is something you should experience.
@nickrizzi4927
@nickrizzi4927 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction to a truest of legends. You are spot on, Brit. Thanks for the smile.
@doltim
@doltim Жыл бұрын
When the feels are so strong you begin making up words.
@ed.z.
@ed.z. Жыл бұрын
Nope, it’s Bebop.
@terrysims4028
@terrysims4028 Жыл бұрын
Great video I enjoyed the jazz music.Miss Ella is a classy lady have a blessed day Miss Britt.
@quinjesuis9187
@quinjesuis9187 Жыл бұрын
Just beyond fabulous and fantastic, first you are swaying to the song and her singing; then you find yourself just sitting there simling brightly 😊
@deborahthornburg4232
@deborahthornburg4232 Жыл бұрын
Ella, the one and only. Ella is recognized as one of the greatest scat singers around.... but her ballads are exquisite. "Summertime."
@richardkawucha1232
@richardkawucha1232 11 ай бұрын
She is considered the "Queen of Scat". A jazz form where the singer ad libs what they feel instead of words. Her male contemporary is Mel Torme "The Velvet Fog". They did some duos. Even as she got older her talent remained.
@thomasherrera6587
@thomasherrera6587 3 ай бұрын
Ella was the queen of scat, and in this recording she gives a masterclass!
@Zagnutwaller61
@Zagnutwaller61 Жыл бұрын
As a kid, I only knew her from the Memerex commercials, then one day I heard her sing a Stairway to the Stars and fell in love with Ella!!
@thomastimlin1724
@thomastimlin1724 Жыл бұрын
Ella was the best, the Queen of Jazz and Skat singing. After attempting to sing skat like this, my tongue would be stuck in my nose!!
@KittCrescendo
@KittCrescendo Жыл бұрын
Ella is my Queen. She’s always been my favorite. She is who I tried to emulate when I was learning to scat.
@pres96ton
@pres96ton Жыл бұрын
she will get beside a sax, trumpet trombone etc etc and they will do an improve riff and she will match it and sound just like the horn
@curtisbrack3398
@curtisbrack3398 Жыл бұрын
There is no secret language in scatting. It's just a singer imitating a musical instrument instead of singing world. It is basically like a guitar solo in the middle of a rock song - they are just doing with their voice. Imagine humming a tune to yourself, but put syllables to it.
@tonygumbrell22
@tonygumbrell22 2 ай бұрын
A great singer is one who can take a good song and make it great...e.g Ella Fitzgerald
@catsara9114
@catsara9114 Жыл бұрын
I love her! She is absolutely her own class 😍😍 Queen of improvisation and scatting, I don´t have words ...
@gynack
@gynack Ай бұрын
Britt Louis Armstrong is the person who was first recorded Scat singing in the mid 20's with his Hot Five band but I can't remember the particular song. So he possibly originated it. He said that he forgot the lyrics and just improvised with meaningless syllables. He continue dofing it at times. Ella started it in the late 30's with the Chick Webb band. After WW11 she picked up Bop chords etc. of the Modern #Jazz that was developing with Charlei Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. Ella's lovely duet version of Summertime with Louis has him scatting beautifully around Ella's singing of the lyrics. My favourite version of Summertime actually. You would definitely love it.
@pres96ton
@pres96ton Жыл бұрын
watch her and Louis do SUMMERTIME and you will hear her extremely beautiful ballad voice.....
@patmellen7523
@patmellen7523 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. This is the second time I've heard Ella Fitzgerald. The first time was her duet with Karen Carpenter. This track shows why Ella Fitzgerald was looked up to by the singers who followed her. What an awesome voice!
@P-M-869
@P-M-869 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching Ella on TV and Movies.
@stevedavis2644
@stevedavis2644 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this. Hearing Ella Fitzgerald singing this absolutely made my day!
@robertechols9094
@robertechols9094 Жыл бұрын
Ella was a master at singing and being soulful and just music!! Saying she was great is understating it!
@t.r.1708
@t.r.1708 Жыл бұрын
Ella! Queen Ella! Yes it’s scat and she was the scat Queen! Thx so much! Love your reactions!
@Dej24601
@Dej24601 Жыл бұрын
Once in a lifetime talent! Also - try Sarah Vaughn (love her version of ‘Black Coffee’) and someone not as well-known, but listen to Shirley Horn sing ‘Here’s to Life.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@edyarb
@edyarb Жыл бұрын
I was so happy to see you dive way back into the history of music... I'm not sure if it was the same song, but Les Paul (inventor of the modern electric guitar) and his wife Mary Ford also recorded a song called How High the Moon, definitely would like to see your review of that LIVE recording. Les Paul also invented multi-track recording, I think you would be amazed.
@sudelaine8653
@sudelaine8653 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it was the same song, with a vastly-different arrangement, of course.
@razzledazzle8631
@razzledazzle8631 Жыл бұрын
She is from my hometown of Newport News, VA ..!
@sylvialang6606
@sylvialang6606 Жыл бұрын
Dave here. Ella is to me the best female singer ever. As talented as Angelina, Mama Cass and countless others are, every cover of Ella is like a slightly lesser copy of the original. Summertime, Cry Me A River, Dream a Little Dream of Me. listen to Ella's original Can't be beat. Her slides, up and down, are amazing. Her scat is totally unique and breathtaking. Some of her front work with the bands, Basie and Ellington and Louie. WOW!.
@sab4336
@sab4336 Жыл бұрын
Great reaction Brit, i had the chance to attend 2 of her late concerts in Montréal, one with Oscar Peterson - Louis Bellson - Joe Pass and Ray Brown, the other one with the Count Basie Orchestra, great performances even she was almost blind and can barely move (cause diabetes). Miss her so much and i'm glad that i found Angelina Jordan who can bring back that style of music. P.S. You are my best favorite reactor.
@aletmartins6940
@aletmartins6940 Жыл бұрын
From Icon Ella to Icon Elvis - make yourself and all of us happy by reacting to Elvis’s One Night with You - 68 Comeback Special. You’ll be very happy you did!😂❤
@JenMaxon
@JenMaxon 10 ай бұрын
Oh scat, yes - where you treat your voice like an instrument rather than an interpreter of lyrics. Ella was an excellent scat singer. She was so much fun.
@nfpnone8248
@nfpnone8248 Жыл бұрын
Scatting was born out of using the voice as another instrument in the band, it’s reminiscent of soloing and improvisation in jazz, it is said to have been a creation of Louis Armstrong, but no one took it to the level that Ella Fitzgerald took it. It seem like you are becoming addicted to that era of music, which isn’t hard to become addicted to, but now it’s time you started to listen to the masters of that era, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. My favorite song of all time is Mood Indigo Duke Ellington c.1930, my grandmother had it on 78 and she had a Victrola and I almost wore it out playing it, back then records actually came in an album with sleeves to put the records, that’s why we call them albums today. My favorite jazz album of all time is “Someday My Prince Will Come”, Miles Davis c.1961, there is nothing to compare to it, be careful, you will be so addicted you may not play anything else ever again, at one time I listened to it nonstop for weeks. Mood indigo c.1930 Duke Ellington - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnuoppl6iNB_oJY Someday My Prince Will Come c.1961 Miles Davis - kzbin.info/www/bejne/kISre35uisqrbpI
@dianesparrow1592
@dianesparrow1592 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Yes it is called scatting, it is improvising with nonsense sounds instead of words. Ella was considered one of the very best. She was an awesome lady, one of those singers with a God given gift of music.
@thomasherrera6587
@thomasherrera6587 3 ай бұрын
Louis Armstrong was the first to record scat singing on the 1926 song Heebie Jeebies. There's a story, no one knows if its really true, that as he was singing the vocals his sheet music blew off the music stand, and he just began to improvise vocal syllables the way he would play them on trumpet. Studio time was expensive back then too, so they just left it in and didn't re-record it. So the story goes!
@KeithThomson
@KeithThomson 4 ай бұрын
Supposedly she reference about 40 different songs in that scat riff! Ella was one of a kind.
@mamamurray2
@mamamurray2 Жыл бұрын
Ella is my absolute favorite. ❤
@beare55
@beare55 Жыл бұрын
The Queen of Scat, absolutely fantastic!
@michellelaguerre8760
@michellelaguerre8760 7 ай бұрын
Yes, vocal Olympics👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
@susannechickenmom5621
@susannechickenmom5621 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this video with us.
@michaelgombkoto6941
@michaelgombkoto6941 10 ай бұрын
Nice Reaction. I am from Vienna - and i love Ella! The Lady of Sound :)
@ignaciogalvan1732
@ignaciogalvan1732 4 ай бұрын
Scatting got started because Charlie Parker would play so fast that she would have to try to equalize him in doing so Scatt was born it was only way she could keep up with Him.... Bird Lives ❤.. Ella has such a beautiful clean voice like when u ring a crystal glass ❤ nor Whitney/Anita Baker/Mariah could shine her shoes.😊
@rabrab3
@rabrab3 6 ай бұрын
Best vocalist ever!
@tapduff
@tapduff Жыл бұрын
ELLA THE GOAT!!!
@JimJack-ng9yi
@JimJack-ng9yi Жыл бұрын
The Queen of scat
@mrdasbruce
@mrdasbruce 6 ай бұрын
This is my favorite reaction on all of youtube. No! Thank you. lol i've watched you react to this about 10 times.
@robertknight2556
@robertknight2556 10 ай бұрын
Your reaction is just thrilling.....you are really really understanding, really getting into this. Bravo, lovely lady. Robert, uk.
@user-ji3yw9sm1d
@user-ji3yw9sm1d 11 ай бұрын
The greatest black singer in jazz reacted by the most beautiful black youtuber ever...
@toussaintinugu1243
@toussaintinugu1243 Ай бұрын
During her scatting she often used the word "Bebop". She's letting you know that she's singing Parker's chord structure to that song. She's paying homage.
@frankiebowie6174
@frankiebowie6174 11 ай бұрын
The origins of scat are disputed, but even if Louis Armstrong began it, no one ever took it to the astronomical heights she did, quoting a handful of standards and pop songs of the day and smashing every note she imagined. “How High the Moon” is the song that started it for her, because she really did forget the lyrics one night and improvised her way through it. The crowd went nuts and she did a version of it for years. She was always so present and right there for everyone to love.
@sharonsnail2954
@sharonsnail2954 Жыл бұрын
Bravo Britt for reacting to this historic recording 👍👍👍when Ella was in Berlin in 1960 Now dive into the Song Book series she recorded for Verve from 1956 onwards. Can't really go wrong but a couple of my faves are "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" and "Every Time We Say Goodbye". And that dive will not include "A-Tisket-A-Tasket" nor "Misty"!! After that, Sarah Vaughn.
@netzahuacoyotl
@netzahuacoyotl Жыл бұрын
Scatting is a form of improvised jazz singing that imitates an instrumental solo. Scat uses nonsensical syllables so there is nothing to decode. But the more you are familiar with the jazz repertoire, you might catch quotes from other tunes or solos. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to popularize scat, but Ella took it to the highest levels.
@pres96ton
@pres96ton Жыл бұрын
Ella showed up at the APOLLO THEATER IN NEW YORK on amateur night and was gong to dance but the act before her was 2 dancers and were so good that she went out and sang and blew the audience away. Chic Webb, who was a dwarf who played drums and had the best swing band in NYC needed a singer and they brought him Ella and he said no way immediately because she was not pretty and chubby but when he heard her sing he hired her immediately and she sang with his band....Chic died very early.....
@sudelaine8653
@sudelaine8653 Жыл бұрын
Chick Webb had spinal tuberculosis (not dwarfism) which led to his early death. He was a tremendous talent and it's kind of a shame that nowadays he's mostly remembered for bring Ella Fitzgerald to the world. His own percussionist skills, his band leadership, and the other artists he gave a start to should be remembered as well.
@howardp.
@howardp. Жыл бұрын
Hi Britt, I always like listening to your reactions. You make it fun. There is something I would like to say in which you mentioned about singers today. Music like any art form changes and you have to change with the times but singers today cannot compare to singers of the past. Everything now is auto tune and singers today can't sing. The only modern singers I can think of that have or did have a voice is Adele, Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. Ella's scatting was the best.
@jeromewalters1916
@jeromewalters1916 10 ай бұрын
Wow Ella can really swing.
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