These situations include his encounters with the famous jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald, his unforgettable prison experience and his adult pilgrimage to Mecca. ... Malcolm X met many people in his lifetime, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) being one of those people. ... Fitzgerald received the name "first lady of song"(Ella Fitzgerald, Encarta), when she successfully brought jazz into the mainstream culture. Within the 60 years of Fitzgerald's life she had created an everlasting record of art, Fitzgerald's jazz styles and scat singing ("improvised nonsense syllables usually sung to instrume...

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Scat is most closely associated by the general public with Ella Fitzgerald and her many imitators. ... Ella Fitzgerald's recording of "Flying Home" was thought to be her first scat-based recording ! ... The recording also showed that Ella Fitzgerald was already educated on the fast up-and-coming Bebop movement. ...

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