Paga I Portland Obae ·er June I , 1960
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.,ELLA FITZGERALD"
A LEGEND IN HER TliME
AMA Family Dey and Night Care Program proudly announces a Gala
Anniversary banquet in honor ot· our ten years ot" service to chtldren and
ramilies or the community, June IJ, 1980, at 6:30 p.m. • 9:30 p.m., West
minister PresbYtcrian Church 162-4 N.E. Hancock. Guest speaker: Associate
Director Headstan Bureau, Henlay Foster. Donation S12.00 per person. For
ticket information call 285-0493.
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Many 01· the adJecuves used to describe Ella Fitzgerald's voice seem
desianed for the 16 year old who won the series ot talent contests in Harlem
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BOUI\BON
STI\EET
WALKING IN FA'T HER'S FOOTSTEPS
stories. "Thank you for coming back," they say, "why did you stay away for
so long"!" Sold-out performances. The critics stalk the dictionary for new
words of praise in more languages than you hear in the U.N. There's hardly a
country in the world where Ella isn't known.
In a very short time Ella was becoming nationally famous through late
night radio broadcasts and recording with Chick Webb, at first skeptical of
the young girl from Yonkers, Webb, by now wa~ sufficiently won over to
have become Ella's legal guardian, and for a time she lived with him and his
wife.
Here's Benny Green's succinct appraisal of a career that ha~ delighted the
world: "With the possible exception of Louis Armstrong, Ella is the most
widely celebrated of any Jazz artist, a Jazz specialist whose singing evolved
naturally into a broadly popular style, so appealing the world has more or
less fallen at her feet."
A piece like this should really end with Ella speaking for herself". "I
sometimes ask myself," she says, "Where am I going'! What am I doing• for
myself and for others'! Well, God gave me a voice. He gave me something
with which lo make other people happy. There must have been a reason."
There must have been. We can think of a lot ot· reasons. Bui the simplest
seems to make the most sense. Joy. Pure Joy.
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Mercer Ellington conducts the famous Duke Ellington Orchestra ••
"The All-Time International Favorite·· -- In a Joint Portland concert
with Elle Fitzgerald. Thia teaming of two Jazz Immortal• la the only
appearance together for the ertlata In the United Statea this year.
Tickets for the June 12. 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. performances are priced
at t16.00. ,12.60 and ,10.00 end are available at The Civic Auditorium
Box Office and at all Portland outlets.
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DJ'S DANCE
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The Club of the 80's
that began her 1.:areer. "Fresh," they called it, and still call it. Infectious and
happy. Innocent. Girlish, It must be eternal youth, or something close lo it.
Eternal youth 1s only part ol Ella today. Critics talk about a new
mellowness of her voice. An added dimensmn 10 her ballad singing in par-
ticular.
The praise is a~ undiminished a~ the voice. In t'act, a\ time goes by, they
both seem to get stronger. "She is the best equipped vocalist ever 10 grace the
Jazz scene," wrote British music critic Benny Green, "having II freakishly
wide vocal range, literally perfect intonation, and an acutely ,ens1t1ve ear for
harmonic changes ... There 1s to her voice a lilting lullaby quality which
renders even commonplace material movina,' •
Bing Crosby said it more succinctly, "Man, woman or child, Ella is the
area test."
If a career can be measured by its statistics, then Ella's as a pop/Jazz
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vocalist is unbeatable. Her more than 100 albums have sold more than 2S
million copies. Down Beat named her best female Jazz singer eighteen con•
secu1ive years.
Ella's tours have taken on something of the tlavor of triumphal marches in
recent years. Newspapers herald her arrival with prominent photos and
Ella Fitzgerald •· ""The First Lady of Jezz·· •• brings her magic to Port-
land o n June 12 for a Joint concert appearance w ith t he Duke
Ellington Orchestra conducted by Mercer Ellington. Show will benefit
The Oregon Association of Hoaptlela Foundet lon. Tickets priced at
,1&.00, ,12.60 and ,10.00 -- are on nle at Port land Civic Auditori um
Box Office ad at all the usual Portland outlets. Two performances are
scheduled •· at 7:00 and 10:00 p .m . -- for the on ly Ella and Ellington ap-
pearance together scheduled for the United States In 1980.
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The day after his father's funeral in May, 1974, Mercer Ellington took the
orchestra to Bermuda as previously committed to play at IBM's Golden
Circle Convention. It was a hard decision to make, and hard to fulfill, but in
doing so Mercer faithfully mainlained a tradition established by Duke
Ellington during his five triumphant decades as a bandleader.
Since that time, Mercer has been at pains to maintain that tradition
musically as well as professionally and ethnically. The band's library contains
all the famous compositions and arrangements, and he has steadily reac-
tivated items in it that had become less familiar through neglect in recent
years. His father was so prolific that there was inevitably a tendency to em-
phasize the "new one" at the expense of the past. It is now possible to see his
majestic output in some kind of perspective and to restore classics to the
prominence they deserve. This Mercer is systematically doing, and he is also
able to spring enlightening surprises by playing compositions written by his
father that were never publicly performed.
With the Ellington Orchestra u1,1der Mercer's leadership, Duke Ellington's
music will continue to be a healthY,i.and Joyous element in twentieth-century
life.
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Mercer Kennedy Ellington, composer, arranger and trumpet player, is the
son of Duke Ellington. He was born in Washington, D.C., on November 3rd,
IIJ19. An association with his father's orchestra began when he was eight
years old.
Growing up as the loyal son or an internationally famous father entailed
both rewards and frustrations. Mercer's own individual talents, particularly
as an arranger and a composer, were inevitably overshadowed by those of his
father. Nevertheless, such creations as Things Ain't Whal They Use To be,
Jumpin Punkins, John Hardy's Wife, Blue Serge, The Girl In My Dreams,
Pass Me By, Moon Misl, Maroon, Go1 My Fool In The Door, Ruint, Broad-
way Babe, Indelible, and Be Pa1ien1 testify to his creative ability,
Many of these numbers, incidently, can be heard in an excellent MCA
album (349) entitled BLACK AND TAN FANTASY, made under Mercer's
name with an all-star band.
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so close and yet so far away. ,
Just as the candy Isn't the
answer to nutrition for the child. '
as adults WI' loo may be looking
on the wrong side of rhe glass.
When one moves from the glass
love will find them.
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