Ella Fitzgerald - Flying Home

For audio, click: http://vimeo.com/3463869
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Ella's masterpiece edited to computer graphics from the mid-1980s. (Sorry for the tape glitches that occurred later.)

Recorded in 1945, but unreleased until 1947, Flying Home is a key track in Ellas huge discography and a watershed in her career. It was the product of over two years' experimentation during live performances in extending the boundaries of jazz singing, and remains among the finest jazz vocal records of all time. In it she harnessed scat singing for its musical potential rather than exploring any subjective dimension of her singing. While on the one hand it was rightly hailed as a vocal tour-de-force, on the other it showed, for those who cared to listen, that as early as 1945 she was already aligning herself with the new thing in music: bebop. It would turn out to be one of the most important career moves of her life, but one that would take a couple of years to be fully realized.

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[potentperson]

the audio really IS there!! What a shock :) Anyone unsure can do what I did and google it - the same link comes up.

[marknyc9]

@potentperson

Youtube has blocked the audio on a number of my clips, so I post them at vimeo and include the link here.

[potentperson]

@marknyc9 yeah, I know. I was just letting other people know that the link you gave isn't a fake - that I found it using Google and was rewarded with the original audio. Thanks! :)

[helloaphant]

@TeethTeethEyes

Wooooooooooooooooord!

[TeethTeethEyes]

oh my god im so high right now this is so amazing