The Miguel Zenon Quartet with Luis Perdomo, piano; Hans Glawischnig, bass; and Henry Cole, drums, play “¿Que Sera de Puerto Rico?†in 2009 at the Teatro Central de Sevilla, Spain. This was the year following Zenon’s winning one of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships popularly known as “genius grants.”
Archives for May 15, 2011
Weekend Extra: Young Ella On Film
In what may have been her motion picture debut, here is Ella Fizgerald at 25 in the 1942 Abbott and Costello comedy Ride ‘Em Cowboy. With her in the sequence are the Merry Macs singing and the Lindy Hoppers lindy-hopping. This was at about the time she had stopped fronting the Chick Webb band and moved into a solo career. Fitzgerald’s first professional ambition was to be a dancer. That’s not her job here, but check out her moves as she comes onto the set.