Ella Fitzgerald's Influences

The collaborations between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong demonstrate some of jazz’s finest performances. One of their duets is, “You Won’t Be Satisfied”, in which they share a hopelessly romantic moment. After the brief instrumental introduction, the pair take their turns singing the same chorus for followed by a collaborative effort with a short solo trumpet performance between the second and third sections. Fitzgerald starts off the first chorus singing to Armstrong very casually but quickly allows her classic sassy and emotional vocal tone to shine through by the end of the third line. The chorus sings out about how the singer tries so hard to please the other but the companion does not reciprocate the same feelings; the other side

Gloria Patch was Anthony Patch 's wife. She the sophisticated city girl who had it all. They meet through Anthony 's friend Dick Caramel, who is also Gloria 's cousin in the city plaza. She is a fabulous dancer, but always wanted to be an actress. Zelda Fitzgerald yearned to be a ballerina, while Gloria Patch wanted to be an actress, both at the age of thirty. Both, Anthony Patch and Scott Fitzgerald disapproved of their wives ' social lives. Zelda was considered a very outgoing person, which could be said for Gloria as well. “He disapproved of Gloria: She stayed out too late, she never ate her meals, she was always in a mix up...”(20). Anthony Patch said this about Gloria, and since F. Scott Fitzgerald is known to have used his personal life as references, it can be inferred that he felt that way about his wife Zelda.

Along with that, girls would pour their heart into the songs they sang from the radio. Fitzgerald spent a majority of her time imitating the singers broadcasted. Ella first fell in love with the singer Louis Armstrong. When singing his songs she was able to learn how to sing the style of swing. Later on Fitzgerald hear of the Boswell Sisters and completely idolized them. Ella said,”My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it. I tried so hard to sound just like her.” (Nicholson 9). Fitzgerald was able to grasp an incredible tone and foundation for her voice. This lead to her future career as a singer.

Her first records include “Bo Weavil Blues” and “Moonshine Blues.” By 1928, however, Paramount records canceled her contract, and she recorded her last record. She officially retired from singing in 1935 and began to earn a living by the operating a couple theaters.

Thesis: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is generally remembered as the flamboyant wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda, named after a gypsy queen in a novel, however, was a talented writer in her own right, recognized for her biting and bantering style.

There are a revolutionary of unique voices before the music formation in the contemporary art music. The feeling of the new art music has its foundation on a progression of works and spirituals of the past musical legendries including Billie Holiday. Before her demise, Billie is noted to have had a flourishing career as a jazz singer. Meanwhile, she is still known as one of the singers who has had a significant influence on the history of Jazz music. Her legacy is re-stated in the music landscape in ways that prove her as a reflection of the foundation of the major transformations in jazz and the whole American music.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a St. Paul, Minnesota native, was born on September 24, 1896. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, had co-written a novel in his youth and often read works by Edgar Allen Poe and Lord George Gordon Byron to Scott during his childhood. While Fitzgerald’s father praised his literary attempts, both of his parents encouraged him to pursue other career paths. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald was steadfast in his literary endeavors, writing for both his high school and college newspapers. He later dropped out of Princeton University in order to join the army and continued to pursue writing, penning both magazine articles and musical lyrics (Adams 10-11).

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement specifically in creative arts such as music and literature. Jazz represented the flavor and zest of African American culture in the 1920s-1940s. Billie Holiday had a great impact on the Harlem Renaissance because she was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She performed with other great jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Jo Jones, and Henry Allen. Her career as a jazz singer was an incredible and thriving one, however, it was shortened because of her battle of substance abuse. Despite the drug use and the loss of her mother, the only thing she could turn to was her music. Billie Holiday's legacy will always live on when the discussion of the Harlem Renaissance is present.

Ella's voice had a sweetness to it that was rarely accompanied by such a wide range as hers. Her style has been described as effortless, natural, flexible, ageless and accessible. Many call her "The First Lady of Song". She started as a swing singer, moved to bebop, perfected scat and jazz and could sing modern or classic songs. Artists whose songs she stylized included Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and the Gershwins.

Carole King is a musical icon in the world of 20th century popular music, and her longevity and success as an artist have cemented her as one of the influential musicians out of every genre of music. In this essay, I will examine how her musical style and female identity each played roles her incredibly successful musical career.

As a young girl growing up in Yonkers, just outside New York City, Fitzgerald loved music and dreamed of being a dancer. She and a friend, Charles Gulliver,

Fitzgerald's writing pursuits at Princeton came at the expense of his coursework, however, causing him to be placed on academic probation, and in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the Army, was stationed at Fort Leavenworth that was around the times where World War I was going on so he was scared that his life was going to end in the war and in a visit back home to St. Paul Minnesota he met Ginevra King who would actually be his inspiration for many female characters in his novels and one of them is Daisy Buchanan (one of the main female characters in the book The Great Gatsby). Later on, he became a 2nd lieutenant and was stationed in the outsides of Montgomery, Alabama where Fitzgerald met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, World War I ended before Fitzgerald was even deployed so he went back to New York City hoping to get a lucrative career to convince Zelda to marry him. She accepted the marriage proposal, but after some time that Fitzgerald couldn't give her all she want, lead to their engagement break

Being a touring singing and performer can become a very rough and tiring job. Being on the road traveling for many months, playing different shows every night would make you really realize if singing is what you love to do. Ella was a singer for more than 60 years. Ella Fitzgerald goes down in history as one of the greatest female singers proven by the many awards and respect she received.

There are different types of experiences that Fitzgerald had throughout his life. Some experiences could be happy, exciting or some could be sad, disturbing. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, MN (“F (rancis)”). He died on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, CA (“F (rancis)”). Fitzgerald’s father’s name was Edward Fitzgerald, and his mother’s name was Mary (Mollie) McQuillan (Matthew). When Fitzgerald was a child, he did not get the chance to make childhood friends because his parents moved different places before he started his school. “Fitzgerald attended the Newman school in Hackensack, New Jersey and while he was in school; he continued to write for school publication” (“F (rancis)”). After he graduated high school, he attended Princeton University class of

     In July, 1922, Fitzgerald wrote a note to a friend saying “I want to see