Young Ella (1917-1932) -- Amateur nights (1933-1935) -- Into Chick Webb's orbit (1935) -- Swing-song singer (1935-1936) -- The second feature (1936-1937) -- "Truckin' on down the avenue" (1938) -- Chick and Ella (1939) -- Orchestra leader (1940-1942) -- The home front (1941-1945) -- "Going dizzy" (1945-1947) -- Ella's moon (1947-1949) -- "The singer and the label are in it together" (1948-1953) -- Early years with jazz at the philharmonic (1949-1952) -- Europe with jazz at the philharmonic (1952-1953) -- Upwardly mobile (1954-1955) -- "We got Ella!" (1954-1956) -- The Cole Porter experiment (1956-1957) -- Sing me a standard (1956-1957) -- Flouting categories (1957-1958) -- Midcentury modern triumphs (1959) -- "It's quite a problem trying to please everyone" (1960-1964) -- Generation gaps (1963-1965) -- A jazz oasis in a changing scene (1966-1967) -- Reinventing herself (1968-1969) -- Keeping on (1970-1972) -- "You can always learn" (1973-1978) -- "Push me, push me" (1979-1985) -- "Don't ever wish for the phrase to end" (1986-1996).
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