Mel Searle - An Ella Fitzgerald Tribute Feat. Louis & Ella Duets

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PLS NOTE: DOORS OPEN AT 6PM FOR A 6.30PM SHOWTIME (SHOW DURATION IS 6.30PM-8.10PM) Melbourne Vocalist Mel Searle and her stellar band will pay tribute to the First Lady of Song: the great Ella Fitzgerald! Also featuring the smooth vocal stylings of pianist Craig Smith to recreate the magic of the ~Louis & Ella DUETS~ Ella Fitzgerald, whose career spanned more than five decades, was one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. Join Mel Searle and her band as she traces Ella’s fascinating journey and performs scintillating interpretations of the songs that made Ella famous. “If Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest American singer, it was in part because she could turn any song into an oxygen rush of bouncing melody that reached the listener’s ears as pure, untroubled joy. It’s not just that her singing is beautiful. It is also liberating, transporting us into a realm of pleasure beyond all barriers, whether of race and age, of jazz and pop, of high art and low, or even, when she floats into scat, of language.” Frank Rich, New York Times, 1996 With an innate talent for vocal improvisatio