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Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald

Movie 2017 TMDB 8.0/10 Released
  • Music
  • Documentary
  • 2017

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.

Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald is a movie first shown in 2017. Status: Released. Genres: Music, Documentary. TMDB score 8.0/10 from 2 votes.

2TMDB votes

Title details

Type
Movie
Original title
Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald
Release year
2017
Release date
February 19, 2017
Status
Released
Genres
Music, Documentary
Production companies
TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion, SWR/Arte
Director
Katja Duregger
TMDB rating
8.0/10 (2 votes)
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Cast

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

J

Jim Blackman

Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager

T

Theo Bleckmann

Self

R

Regina Carter

Self

D

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Self

T

Terri Lyne Carrington

Self

W

Will Friedwald

Self - music critic

T

Tad Hershorn

Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

S

Sheila Jordan

Self

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

Self

J

Judith Tick

Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University

Characters

  • Self (archive footage) voiced by Ella Fitzgerald
  • Self - Ella Fitzgerald's friend and road manager voiced by Jim Blackman
  • Self voiced by Theo Bleckmann
  • Self voiced by Regina Carter
  • Self voiced by Dee Dee Bridgewater
  • Self voiced by Terri Lyne Carrington
  • Self - music critic voiced by Will Friedwald
  • Self - archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University voiced by Tad Hershorn
  • Self voiced by Sheila Jordan
  • Self voiced by Dianne Reeves
  • Self - professor of music history, Northeastern University voiced by Judith Tick

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