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Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things [Opens June 26 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Memorable music highlights this insightful, informative, engaging, fascinating, 89-minute, 2019 documentary narrated by Sophie Okonedo that chronicles the life and astonishing, 60-year career of legendary, talented, driven "first lady of jazz" singer Ella Fitzgerald from growing up in the 1930s as a struggling African-American teenager on the streets Harlem to singing at the famous Apollo Theater and consists of archival film clips and photographs with commentary by singers (such as Tony Bennett, Patti Austin, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Mathis, Cleo Laine, and Alexis Morrast), musicians Laura Mvula and Jamie Cullum. biographers Judith Tick and Ted Hershorn, jazz writer Will Friedwald, drummer Gregg Field, son Ray Brown Jr., dancer Norma Miller, jazz pianist Kenny Barron, writer Margo Jefferson, managers Norman Granz and Jim Blackman, Newport jazz festival founder George Wein, violinist/conductor Itzhak Perlman, and composer/conductor André Previn.
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