Jazz Articles about Vickie Smith

Vickie Smith: cELLAbrate

by Craig W. Hurst
April 20, 2004

cELLAbrate! is exactly as advertised. Vickie Smith’s newest recording celebrates the memory and irreplaceable talent of the “Queen of Scat,” Ella Fitzgerald. Smith, a Bloomfield, New Jersey-based big band and cabaret singer, draws music for cELLAbrate! from two tribute shows that she performs in the greater New York City area, “Ella!—The Song is You!” and “Ella and Duke—Love You Madly!” The twelve songs are all standards from the Great American Songbook, or drawn from big band classics composed and/or arranged ...