Ella Fitzgerald - It Don't Mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) [1974]
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass and others performing this Duke Ellington's and Irving Mills' song in London, in 1974. This live date was recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho.
Note the fun she makes in the beginning of the song and also while singing it. Ella was and still is majestic.
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I'm 15 so this is obviously way before my time too but goodness...who COULDN'T appreciate this music? It's beautiful.
11 years later and still a bop
Ur 28 now Elisa right?
This one is garbage listen to the original
@@Blackknight8691 ok blackknight, whatever you say lol
"Enough of that!"......Hilarious!
Ella was sent here to educate us.
Voice as instrument. Love her.
Her voice sounds 50 years younger than herself!! Thank you scat mama
Júlia GP YOUR PHOTO! I ADORE JEFF BUCKLEY! His new album You and I is fantastic. I'd give anything to have seen him in concert before his tragic death.
+Tristan June Oh God yes!! Me too... I feel very close to his musical feeling. Luckily he left a part of his soul in every song!
She was so much more comfortable singing and scatting. It's her language!
Nobody can hold a candle to Ella Fitzgerald scatting! This is still incredible !
She was the best jazz singer we ever had
Dorinda v yeah
Blaze the ulimate ninja vs gaming uu7uuuu
“We” as in the planet, right?
A legend
110% a legend in her own league
She tore it up at 57 years old!
Happy 100th birthday Ms. Ella.
That piano on the drop between 2:01 - 2:04 gives me goosebumps
so good
When she scats hard like this, she's like a hurricane, an unstoppable force of nature. I believe that she was the best singer of be-bob, standards, and general all around jazz that ever was. Like one of her back up band players said: It'll never be this good again. It just isn't available. Lucky for us, there are SO MANY CD's of her out, with more being added all the time. I love You, Ella.
Not only was her sense of pitch remarkable but her impeccable sense of timing and rhythm. For example (1:56 - 2:00)
3:06!
The Best ❤
the scat is unreal...
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YES
Hello man from 5 yrs ago
2019: i think moto moto likes you
The scat is real it is just hard to do
And who else has a full horn orchestra behind her. Musicians obviously loved her
I had the good fortune to see Ella twice live - in 1978, and in 1985. In '78 she opened with "As Time Goes By" - I will remember it the rest of my life - she was simply fantastic.
I saw her in England about 1960. Wonderful. I wish I could mind what band she had backing her but in those days I was pretty young and knew much less about jazz and the players.
She sounds so young, it's incredible. I haven't been able to find many video recordings, so every time I listen to audio, I just can't help but imagine a 25 year old Ella having fun on stage with a cheeky smile :D Unbelievable!
There are only two words that can describe this woman, and these are QUEEN and LEGENDARY.
Her vocal lines and chord phrasings were better than most guitarists today. The pitch bends she can pull off naturally, are to die for. Bless her soul, she was incredible.
My aunt, the flower girl, hippie. LOVES THIS!!! She got her father off the couch to dance to this. If it ain’t got that thing.....Ella brought generations together scatting.
I can imagine this is the kind of sound checks being done in heaven right now. Amazing !
Ella Fitzgerald is easily the finest singer ever to have lived. Especially at this time of her life. An absolute masterclass. So sad I’ll ever see her live. Her tone and natural genius in jazz is outstanding. So effortless.
Makes me so happy to watch this video. Would've been a JOY to see her in person.
+Justis Ojo It makes me so angry, that I will never ever have a chance to see her in person.
Amazing! How in the world can she hear herself with that setup? Those guys are blowing!
This is a strange story. I didn't used to like Jazz in any form.... I used to actively hate it. But suddenly 4 days ago, out of fucking nowhere... I suddenly loved it. Now, I can't get enough of it. The Human mind is a strange thing
I watch this video again, in crappy notebook speakers, alone in my room. And when it ends I feel so compelled to stand up and applaud and cheer like all this is here and now.
Swing is the epitome of awesome, and so is she
Haa! Obviously, Country "ain't her thing!" She said, 'enough of that!' lol However, she did nice job with a Country Twang. Very talented woman...inspiring all of the time.
Jackson Caesar yea
Right?
You call her very talented? Then you are blaming yourself. She is one of the hottest singers ever. Talsented is maybe a little child.
The Queen of Scat!
Grandioso
Mi hijo tocó esta canción en la escuela con la banda de jazz y fue grandioso oírla y aún mas con Ella fue fenomenal 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
shes amazing ive been watching her even when i was a baby and im 19
what a talent!! i could listen to this all day
I agree most heartly with Her , Dobie, Thanks for the post❤ Semper fi on this Memorial Day Sunday 2023❤
How many of you heard snippets of Four Brothers, and Splanky, right after it? LOVE IT!
2020 still watching!! I love how she differentiates the kind of music and ended up singing It Don't Mean A Thing, so iconic!!
really spectacular! 4:04
ELLA, you were so CLASSY! Everything she did, she did with so much CLASS and STYLE and GRACE. What a wonderful woman!!! Yeah! She is definitely having fun!!!
I need a replay. What a voice!
Or 10
2021 here! What an ABSOLUTE LEGEND! 😍😍😍
The best jazz vocalist ever
It was recorded in a German TV studio in Koeln 1974. The big band is the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass, which accompanied over the years musicians like Benny Goodman and Sammy Davis.
I'm so lucky to have the same name as a such an iconic person in our history
Good Bless her! I feel what she says here! The GREAT singer, piano player, Queen of scat, performer .... list is so long there’s too much to mention here ... I adore her and honor her memory/ memories.
Just 2 Words : THÉ GOAT ❤
I'm crying and laughing at the same time.
What a miracle this woman was.
She's amazing, pitching is unreal!!
Just too awesome. I got to go lie down.
How can you thumbs down this?? Incredible
My Goodness!!!!! Straight vocal beast!!!!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
This lady right here u can tell she loves it
My god, I LOVE this woman!!!!
ha she ain't even trying, genius , pure genius, I love Ella
Ahh, tingles in my spine, they don't make musicians like this anymore...
"it don't mean a thing" is my favourite jazz song. i've got about 7 versions of this song in my computer.
Hello! Do you know the name of this Big Band song 3:24?
@@LipnitskyOrchestraat 3:03 I can hear Chattanooga Chooo-Choo and at 3:17 Four Brothers. I read a comment telling about Splanky, but I don't know the tune so I can't tell.
lol my friend & i are 14 &15 & we have both LOVED LOVED, LOVED this stuff for a few years now!! it's real american music!!! the classics never die :D
Ella was amaziing!
It’s very intense, when the only definition of scar you have known is to dedicate. And only learning otherwise when you saw the comments of this video
She is the essence of the music
This is the kind of music I want to raise my children on. Not that crap they call music these days.
Same here I may be 13 years old but I know real talent and Ella has it. Music sucks these days. My grandfather misses music like this a lot. I sometimes think I was born into the wrong generation. Now music is just too absurd.
in that case, buy Cheek To Cheek by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga!
Some of the music these days is good. Ever heard of pentatonix
Did you know that people still actually make music but I guess you're so dense you didn't know that.
TMNoob3 You're right. I'm an old guy so I like a long span of music. But as a player, I'm constantly impressed with the quality of young players today. And if you look, you may surprised at some of the good stuff you can find. It's just probably not what the big corporations are shoveling into the wheelbarrow.
What a voice 😍😎
She started getting her groove on when she said "soul train" music
Disagree! Strongly!
3:33 or 3:32 maybe... that is her, all the way to the mother Fn MIC DROP
🎤 🔻 ❌
Good grief she's amazing.
Awesome!
0:22 she like music? she is music, all styles and with all intentions!!!
She's obviously not human cause no human scats like that
Yeah, my scat is shit in comparison
@@iliveinsin I saw what you did there. I got you.
She’s a SCAT MACHINE
Only the Scatman can do better
@@iliveinsin Hahahahaaaaa!!!! GOOOOOOD ONE!! HEHEHEHE!!!!
Absolute pinacle of African American music
1st song i remember from elementary. prob why my standards are so high. 1st time hearing Ella's version my mind is blown.
Pretty sure she just mic-dropped that at the end
GET IT FITZ! ♡
😆
one of the best singers in the world
I fantastic slice of American music culture. We have our Bachs and Beethovens
She's amazing, she's magic, eternal, immortal we love her, she's our joy on earth, she best of all :)
Jazz has all the elements that other music has: It has melody; that's the tune of the song, the part you're most likely to remember. It has harmony, the notes that make the melody sound fuller. It has rhythm, which is the heartbeat of the song. But what sets jazz apart is this cool thing called improvisation. 2:34
Excerpt from an article in The Washington Post
She is so talented!!!
More talent in her little finger than...I'm not going to say it, but we live in vacuous times.
I think there is always a point in someones life where they wished they lived in an era that wasn't there. Midnight in Paris captures this message perfectly. the I portent thing though is to enjoy your life now.
I have kinda the same story: I grew up with jazz, being surounded by it almost every day and use to hate it alot at a certain point, finding it very boring. Then, when I was a bit older, I started to appreciate it more and more. Now I feel so lucky I have been raised with it! =D
I love that intro
Awesome she could sing any rithm she wants. Ella Fitzgerald was great.
Look at them all ! Live recording, awesome sound, perfect talents, best groove and harmonies, amazing workers ...
I'm so ashamed of my generation's music !!!
The key elements of Jazz include: blues, syncopation, swing and creative freedom. 0:28
Three methods of Jazz improvisation are melodic, harmonic and motivic. 1:15
Sources: New York Jazz Workshop. A Passion For Jazz
1980 I saw Ella live. Daughter is 10 and loves Ella, etc. I did a good job................. PHEW...
not simply talent but the work that went into perfecting her style and force.
omg the queen of jazz her self
Ella Fitzgerald - one of the best there ever was
"Enough of that." 😃😃
Absolutely the greatest!
Ella...Highr Priestess of Jazz !
Coolest granny ever.
Fantastic.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Ella!
How can you dislike Ella you must be a total moran.
Ella is the absolute QUEEN of Jazz, nobody I mean NOBODY could sing like her.
Look at Ella still looking FLYYY as ever! LOL! Yes! This was good!
I saw her first on "thats so raven" and now i love her music :)
I wasn't into swing until I heard this song :)
am in love w/ it
😲
The greatest diva of Scat Jazz.
If you are of a certain age, you were blessed, as I was, to hear the original recordings and occasional live performances of a generation of singers without peer--Fitzgerald, Holiday, Vaughn, O'Day, Horn, Dearie, McCrae, Horne, Washington, etc. As much as we miss them, let's not forget there are some fine singers out there today, in the tradition, such as Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Maude Maggart, Jane Monheit, Hilary Kole, and Stacey Kent. Give them a try if you haven't yet.
she loves music - and I love her voice!
Hello!! How are you doing @Angie !!#pretty❤️
The Queen of scat 😍😍🙌🏾
Ella kicked ass!
Never has and never will be anyone like Ella. LOVE it
Oh God Ella is The BEST !!!!!!!!
You cannot top that .
do wop da wop da wop da wop da wop da wop. ei hah! Wonderful!