ange in pop recordings, releasing a country album and a record of Christmas music, among others. With Reprise Records, she made several albums of contemporary music, including songs by the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, and Burt Bacharach. Fitzgerald returned to jazz in 1973, when Granz formed a new label, Pablo. From 1973 to 1986, she made a series of recordings with the guitarist Joe Pass. In 1974, she played a wildly profitable two-week concert engagement in New York, with fellow legends Frank Sinatra and Count Basie. Starting in the early 1970s, Fitzgerald began to suffer from eyesight problems and other ailments, complicated by diabetes. She continued to tour nationally and internationally, however, and kept up her hectic touring schedule well into the 1980s. In 1986, Fitzgerald was hospitalized for exhaustion, and later underwent a quintuple coronary bypass. By 1990, she had cut back her appearances to a few per month. In 1993, both of her legs were amputated below the knees due to circulatory system complications from her diabetes. The famously private Fitzgerald lived in Beverly Hills for many years. On June 15, 1996, she died at home at the age of 79, survived by her son, Ray Brown, Jr., and one grandchild. ...
