Duante Beddingfield
Duante Beddingfield, a Dayton native, formerly served as jazz writer for both the Dayton Daily News and Dayton City Paper, has booked jazz musicians for area venues such as Pacchia, and performs regularly around the region as a jazz vocalist with musical partner Randy Villars; Beddingfield and Villars were the final jazz headliners to play Dayton's legendary Gilly's nightclub. A writer by trade, he also has a long history of volunteer and nonprofit work that support the Dayton community.
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Equinox with Duante Beddingfield from 2/15/21, from WYSO Music On Demand.
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Duante Beddingfield (Equinox)'s summertime selections for 2020. -
Along with being one of the greatest voices of all time, Ella Fitzgerald was celebrated as one of the world's most talented scat singers - "scatting"... -
No legendary musician's catalogue is complete without at least one winter holiday album, and Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas...
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By the 1950s, Billie Holiday was known as a peerless blues singer among jazz musicians. However, in 1963, Ella Fitzgerald did something Billie never...
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Today, the song that made me fall in love with Ella Fitzgerald. Ella loved every kind of music, voraciously listening to almost anything she came across...
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Very few are aware that Ella Fitzgerald's first #1 single - preceding her famous "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (which we'll discuss later) - was recorded with...
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Old pals Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong teamed up in the late 1940s when she was on the Decca label, but it's their three albums for Verve Records...
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1964's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook, despite often being forgotten among her Verve output, is a beautiful work that is significant...
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This fun recording was the lead track from Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson, the first of a back-to-back pair of albums Ella Fitzgerald and Nelson...
