SHORT TAKES : Celebrity Tribute to Fitzgerald
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NEW YORK — Friends and admirers of Ella Fitzgerald, from a 15-year-old tap dancer to trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, will perform at an American Heart Assn. fund-raiser honoring the singer.
The Feb. 12 show at Avery Fisher Hall in New York includes performances by tap dancer Savion Glover, George Shearing, Linda Ronstadt, Cab Calloway, Andre Previn, Joe Williams, Honi Coles and the Copasetics, Bobby McFerrin, Manhattan Transfer and opera diva Jessye Norman.
They’ll be introduced by singer Lena Horne and violinist Itzhak Perlman.
Benny Carter, who led a band in the 1930s and ‘40s, will lead a band including Red Rodney, Clark Terry, Harry (Sweets) Edison, Jon Faddis, Phil Woods, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, David Sanborn, Slide Hampton, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson and Hank Jones, who was Fitzgerald’s piano accompanist from 1948 to 1953.
Proceeds will go to the Ella Fitzgerald Research Fellowship Fund.
