Editing Ella Fitzgerald (section)

===Decca years===
[[File:Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb).jpg|thumb|alt=Fitzegeral is singing with a microphone inside a jazz club. Ray Brown stands behind her; Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson sit in a table in the background; and Timme Roesenkratz in the foreground.|Fitzgerald with [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], [[Milt Jackson]], and [[Timme Rosenkrantz]] in New York City, 1947]]

In 1942, with increasing dissent and money concerns in Fitzgerald's band, Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra, she started to work as lead singer with The Three Keys, and in July her band played their last concert at Earl Theatre in Philadelphia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=[[Stuart Nicholson (jazz historian)|Stuart Nicholson]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1QSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |title=Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-136-78814-7 |page=74}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Humphrey |first=Harold |date=April 4, 1942 |title=New Notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT66 |access-date=October 10, 2014 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]] |page=67 |volume=54 |issue=14 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> While working for [[Decca Records]], she had hits with [[Bill Kenny (singer)|Bill Kenny]] & [[the Ink Spots]],<ref name="goldberg">{{Cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Marv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXLGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 |title=More Than Words Can Say: The Ink Spots and Their Music |date=1998 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-1-4616-6972-2 |page=125}}</ref> [[Louis Jordan]],<ref name="tyler">{{Cite book |last=Tyler |first=Don |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSCfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA304 |title=Hit Songs, 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-2946-2 |page=304}}</ref> and [[the Delta Rhythm Boys]].<ref name="billboard07Dec46">{{Cite magazine |date=December 7, 1946 |title=Coming Up |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT27 |magazine=The Billboard |page=27}}</ref> Producer [[Norman Granz]] became her manager in the mid-1940s after she began singing for [[Jazz at the Philharmonic]], a concert series begun by Granz.

With the demise of the [[swing era]] and the decline of the great touring [[big band]]s, a major change in jazz music occurred. The advent of [[bebop]] led to new developments in Fitzgerald's vocal style, influenced by her work with [[Dizzy Gillespie]]'s big band. It was in this period that Fitzgerald started including [[scat singing]] as a major part of her performance repertoire. While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled: "I just tried to do [with my voice] what I heard the horns in the band doing."<ref name="cnn" />

Her 1945 scat recording of "[[Flying Home]]" arranged by [[Vic Schoen]] would later be described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade....Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness."<ref name="nyobit" /> Her bebop recording of "[[Oh, Lady Be Good!]]" (1947) was similarly popular and increased her reputation as one of the leading jazz vocalists.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gioia |first=Ted |author-link=Ted Gioia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVwGAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA307 |title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |page=307 |access-date=October 11, 2014}}</ref>