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‘Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things’: Film Review

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Chris Willman Music WriterEarly on in “Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things,” singer Patti Austin tells the story of how Fitzgerald — traveling with a big band in the 1930s and apparently the only one on the bus with no interest in getting high — would sit in the back with her coat over her head to act as her “own personal filtration system.” That’s good for a laugh, and it’s also good for a sense of relief, in being reminded that this will be the rare film about a 20th century jazz giant that doesn’t have to worry about when to start in on the tragic foreshadowing.

Living to a ripe old age, in this genre of documentary, is not just one of those things.It’s suggested in director Leslie Woodhead’s film that Fitzgerald lived a fairly.

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