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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

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Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra - For Ella: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald with Patti Austin

  • When: Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007, 8 p.m.
  • Where: Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce Street, Fort Worth
  • Cost: $24 - $76
  • Age limit: All ages

The FWSO pays tribute to one of America's best singers later this month. Each of the four shows will feature standards, including "Our Love Is Here To Stay," "How High The Moon," "A Tisket, A Tasket" and many more. Jeffrey Pollock conducts. Concerts start at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Patti Austin's work crosses all musical genres. She has sixteen solo albums to her credit and has performed her award nominated hit songs on the Grammy Awards and Oscars. As a performer, songwriter and vocalist, she has had a star-studded career that began at the age of four.

Patti Austin

The daughter of a jazz trombonist and goddaughter of musical legends Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington, Austin made her stage debut with Washington at the world-famous Apollo Theater in Harlem. During the 1970s she was the undisputed queen of the New York jingle session scene. Her voice was heard on literally hundreds of commercials, behind everyone from Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and Joe Cocker to Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, Luther Vandross and Diana Ross. At the beginning of the 1980s, Jones gave her exposure to a wider audience through her participation on his best-selling album Stuff Like That and the Grammy Award-winning The Dude.

Recently Austin debuted a one-woman show, which she wrote and created; was nominated for yet another Grammy Award for her spectacular recording in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, For Ella, recorded live with the WDR Big Band in Colon, Germany; and co-created the musical extravaganza Beboperella.

Source: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

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