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Stella Swings EllaVALENTINES DAY SHOW
"Tenderly, The Love songs of Ella Fitzgerald"
February 14th, 8pm
Douglas Morrison Theatre
22311 N 3rd St, Hayward, CA 94546
Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, evolved through many phases in her almost 60-year career, from commanding the dance floor of the Savoy with a top dance band of the swing era (led by Chick Webb), to touring with Dizzy Gillespie and honing her ear for bebop, to blazing new ground for vocal improvisation, and forging the songbook cycle of recordings. This established her not only as a jazz and swing singer but a pop singer as well and helped to solidify many of the songs composed by the likes of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Gershwin, and so on as great American Standards. In her later years, she toured all over the world performing live and created her beautiful stripped-down recordings with guitarist Joe Pass.
Stella Heath is a San Francisco Bay Area vocalist known for creating/performing such programs as “The Billie Holiday Project,” “Stella Meets Nat,” “Unsung Standards: Lesser-Known Gems of the Great American Songbook,” and “From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf.” Stella now takes on the repertoire of Ella in her new program “Stella Swings Ella.”
Stella’s all-star band includes Neil Fontano on piano, Ian Scherer on guitar, Daniel Fabricant on bass, Robby Elfman on saxophone/clarinet, and Spike Klein on drums.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Douglas Morrisson Theatre, 22295 N 3rd St, Castro Valley, CA 94546, United States,Hayward, California
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