Ella Fitzgerald - It Don't Mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) [1974] 

I'm 15 so this is obviously way before my time too but goodness...who COULDN'T appreciate this music? It's beautiful.

Her voice sounds 50 years younger than herself!! Thank you scat mama

She was so much more comfortable singing and scatting. It's her language!

Nobody can hold a candle to Ella Fitzgerald scatting! This is still incredible !

She was the best jazz singer we ever had

"Enough of that!"......Hilarious! Ella was sent here to educate us. Voice as instrument. Love her.

Happy 100th birthday Ms. Ella.

She tore it up at 57 years old!

That piano on the drop between 2:01 - 2:04 gives me goosebumps

Not only was her sense of pitch remarkable but her impeccable sense of timing and rhythm. For example (1:56 - 2:00)

When she scats hard like this, she's like a hurricane, an unstoppable force of nature. I believe that she was the best singer of be-bob, standards, and general all around jazz that ever was. Like one of her back up band players said: It'll never be this good again. It just isn't available. Lucky for us, there are SO MANY CD's of her out, with more being added all the time. I love You, Ella.

the scat is unreal...

And who else has a full horn orchestra behind her. Musicians obviously loved her

Her vocal lines and chord phrasings were better than most guitarists today. The pitch bends she can pull off naturally, are to die for. Bless her soul, she was incredible.

She sounds so young, it's incredible. I haven't been able to find many video recordings, so every time I listen to audio, I just can't help but imagine a 25 year old Ella having fun on stage with a cheeky smile :D Unbelievable!

There are only two words that can describe this woman, and these are QUEEN and LEGENDARY.

I can imagine this is the kind of sound checks being done in heaven right now. Amazing !

I had the good fortune to see Ella twice live - in 1978, and in 1985. In '78 she opened with "As Time Goes By" - I will remember it the rest of my life - she was simply fantastic.

Makes me so happy to watch this video. Would've been a JOY to see her in person.

Amazing! How in the world can she hear herself with that setup? Those guys are blowing!

My aunt, the flower girl, hippie. LOVES THIS!!! She got her father off the couch to dance to this. If it ain’t got that thing.....Ella brought generations together scatting.

Grandioso Mi hijo tocó esta canción en la escuela con la banda de jazz y fue grandioso oírla y aún mas con Ella fue fenomenal 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Haa! Obviously, Country "ain't her thing!" She said, 'enough of that!' lol However, she did nice job with a Country Twang. Very talented woman...inspiring all of the time.

The Queen of Scat!

I need a replay. What a voice!

Swing is the epitome of awesome, and so is she

2020 still watching!! I love how she differentiates the kind of music and ended up singing It Don't Mean A Thing, so iconic!!

2021 here! What an ABSOLUTE LEGEND! 😍😍😍

what a talent!! i could listen to this all day

Ella Fitzgerald is easily the finest singer ever to have lived. Especially at this time of her life. An absolute masterclass. So sad I’ll ever see her live. Her tone and natural genius in jazz is outstanding. So effortless.

The best jazz vocalist ever

shes amazing ive been watching her even when i was a baby and im 19

This is a strange story. I didn't used to like Jazz in any form.... I used to actively hate it. But suddenly 4 days ago, out of fucking nowhere... I suddenly loved it. Now, I can't get enough of it. The Human mind is a strange thing

It was recorded in a German TV studio in Koeln 1974. The big band is the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass, which accompanied over the years musicians like Benny Goodman and Sammy Davis.

How many of you heard snippets of Four Brothers, and Splanky, right after it? LOVE IT!

My Goodness!!!!! Straight vocal beast!!!!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

How can you thumbs down this?? Incredible

I watch this video again, in crappy notebook speakers, alone in my room. And when it ends I feel so compelled to stand up and applaud and cheer like all this is here and now.

This lady right here u can tell she loves it

She's amazing, pitching is unreal!!

"it don't mean a thing" is my favourite jazz song. i've got about 7 versions of this song in my computer.

Just too awesome. I got to go lie down.

ha she ain't even trying, genius , pure genius, I love Ella

Ahh, tingles in my spine, they don't make musicians like this anymore...

Just 2 Words : THÉ GOAT ❤

I agree most heartly with Her , Dobie, Thanks for the post❤ Semper fi on this Memorial Day Sunday 2023❤

1st song i remember from elementary. prob why my standards are so high. 1st time hearing Ella's version my mind is blown.

0:22 she like music? she is music, all styles and with all intentions!!!

She started getting her groove on when she said "soul train" music

ELLA, you were so CLASSY! Everything she did, she did with so much CLASS and STYLE and GRACE. What a wonderful woman!!! Yeah! She is definitely having fun!!!

Pretty sure she just mic-dropped that at the end GET IT FITZ! ♡

She's obviously not human cause no human scats like that

I'm so lucky to have the same name as a such an iconic person in our history

My god, I LOVE this woman!!!!

Ella was amaziing!

This is the kind of music I want to raise my children on. Not that crap they call music these days.

Good grief she's amazing.

She is the essence of the music

What a voice 😍😎

Good Bless her! I feel what she says here! The GREAT singer, piano player, Queen of scat, performer .... list is so long there’s too much to mention here ... I adore her and honor her memory/ memories.

lol my friend & i are 14 &15 & we have both LOVED LOVED, LOVED this stuff for a few years now!! it's real american music!!! the classics never die :D

I'm crying and laughing at the same time. What a miracle this woman was.

It’s very intense, when the only definition of scar you have known is to dedicate. And only learning otherwise when you saw the comments of this video

Absolute pinacle of African American music

Awesome!

"Enough of that." 😃😃

one of the best singers in the world

omg the queen of jazz her self

She is so talented!!!

That was close at 1:59 ;)

I love that intro

I fantastic slice of American music culture. We have our Bachs and Beethovens

She's amazing, she's magic, eternal, immortal we love her, she's our joy on earth, she best of all :)

The key elements of Jazz include: blues, syncopation, swing and creative freedom. 0:28 Three methods of Jazz improvisation are melodic, harmonic and motivic. 1:15 Sources: New York Jazz Workshop. A Passion For Jazz

Ella...Highr Priestess of Jazz !

The Queen of scat 😍😍🙌🏾

More talent in her little finger than...I'm not going to say it, but we live in vacuous times.

Jazz has all the elements that other music has: It has melody; that's the tune of the song, the part you're most likely to remember. It has harmony, the notes that make the melody sound fuller. It has rhythm, which is the heartbeat of the song. But what sets jazz apart is this cool thing called improvisation. 2:34 Excerpt from an article in The Washington Post

Coolest granny ever.

Ella Fitzgerald - one of the best there ever was

Awesome she could sing any rithm she wants. Ella Fitzgerald was great.

I have kinda the same story: I grew up with jazz, being surounded by it almost every day and use to hate it alot at a certain point, finding it very boring. Then, when I was a bit older, I started to appreciate it more and more. Now I feel so lucky I have been raised with it! =D

I wasn't into swing until I heard this song :) am in love w/ it

I think there is always a point in someones life where they wished they lived in an era that wasn't there. Midnight in Paris captures this message perfectly. the I portent thing though is to enjoy your life now.

You cannot top that .

Look at Ella still looking FLYYY as ever! LOL! Yes! This was good!

Look at them all ! Live recording, awesome sound, perfect talents, best groove and harmonies, amazing workers ... I'm so ashamed of my generation's music !!!

do wop da wop da wop da wop da wop da wop. ei hah! Wonderful!

The greatest diva of Scat Jazz.

I saw her first on "thats so raven" and now i love her music :)

she loves music - and I love her voice!

Absolutely the greatest!

thats so raven

not simply talent but the work that went into perfecting her style and force.

1980 I saw Ella live. Daughter is 10 and loves Ella, etc. I did a good job................. PHEW...

Watching this in 2020

Quelle talent !

Fantastic.

If you are of a certain age, you were blessed, as I was, to hear the original recordings and occasional live performances of a generation of singers without peer--Fitzgerald, Holiday, Vaughn, O'Day, Horn, Dearie, McCrae, Horne, Washington, etc. As much as we miss them, let's not forget there are some fine singers out there today, in the tradition, such as Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Maude Maggart, Jane Monheit, Hilary Kole, and Stacey Kent. Give them a try if you haven't yet.

How can you dislike Ella you must be a total moran. Ella is the absolute QUEEN of Jazz, nobody I mean NOBODY could sing like her.