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What is Jazz? Ella Fitzgerald & Mel Tormé explain

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From the 1976 Grammys, scat singing music legends Ella Fitzgerald & Mel Tormé answer the question: What is Jazz?

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Watch more of Fitzgerald’s brilliance with Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean A Thing, singing A Tisket a Tasket, and scat-singing One Note Samba, the singular performance that started this site.

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