Smooth Sailing (Ella Fitzgerald song)
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According to [[Joel Whitburn]], it is one "one of Fitzgerald's most popular scat-singing performances" of all time.{{cite book | last1=Bergsman | first1=Steve | title=What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music | date=30 October 2023 | publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi | isbn=978-1-4968-4896-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ljeEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Smooth+Sailing%22+%22Ella+Fitzgerald%22&pg=PP32 }} Steve Bergsman writes in his book ''What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music'' that the song has "pedigree written all over it." The song's "melodic line grows into arabesques of instrumental precision and agility," describes ''The Ella Fitzgerald Companion''.. |
According to [[Joel Whitburn]], it is one "one of Fitzgerald's most popular scat-singing performances" of all time.{{cite book | last1=Bergsman | first1=Steve | title=What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music | date=30 October 2023 | publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi | isbn=978-1-4968-4896-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ljeEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Smooth+Sailing%22+%22Ella+Fitzgerald%22&pg=PP32 }} Steve Bergsman writes in his book ''What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music'' that the song has "pedigree written all over it." The song's "melodic line grows into arabesques of instrumental precision and agility," describes ''The Ella Fitzgerald Companion''.. |
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[[Stuart Nicholson (jazz historian)|Stuart Nicholson]] in his book ''Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz'' notes that the "virtuoso scat performance" was "less frantic than its predecessors" and that it "contain[ed] the early feel of the emerging [[hard bop|hard-bop movement]]. "This is safe, user-friendly scat over an engaging down-home feeling, and it clicked with the public," narrates the jazz historian. |
[[Stuart Nicholson (jazz historian)|Stuart Nicholson]] in his book ''Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz'' notes that the "virtuoso scat performance" was "less frantic than its predecessors" and that it "contain[ed] the early feel of the emerging [[hard bop|hard-bop movement]]." "This is safe, user-friendly scat over an engaging down-home feeling, and it clicked with the public," narrates the jazz historian. |
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