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Ella Fitzgerald: Some Stories about the Queen of Jazz on Her Birthday!

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
Published April 25, 2014 at 6:39 AM EDT
Jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald (1917 to 1996)

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/national/local-national-1000391.mp3

WRTI's Susan Lewis takes a look at the life and music of the great jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, with commentary by Jazz Host Bob Perkins. April 25th is Ella's birthday! She would have turned 98 today.

http://youtu.be/2Gn9A-kdsRo

http://youtu.be/ySszeu4H4QI
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Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
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