Ella UNLEASHES For 4 Mins Starting @1:27! Ella Fitzgerald How High The Moon LIVE Transcription FULL

0:00 Melody 1:01 Double Time Interpretation 1:27 Scat Improvisation Begins 2:18 Beast Mode! 3:09 A Capella 3:59 Insane Intonation 5:12 Still In Tune! 5:35 Ending Ella Fitzgerald. Legend. What more can we say? Before there was rap, hip-hop and freestyling, “scatting“ or improvised singing imitating melodic jazz instruments like sax, trumpet, guitar, etc., was a tradition refined throughout jazz history. Louis Armstrong started it, and when Bebop came along, nobody thought it was possible to to do what the likes of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were doing on vocals... until Ella came along and proved them all wrong. Her incredible intonation, her range, her speed, her musicality, her cleverness and creativity (as she interpolates melodic bits from other songs) are all on display here in this phenomenal 1966 live performance of “How High The Moon“. This is similar to the famous “Live In Berlin“ version, but it’s also q