This album contains four recordings apiece from Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan and two from Lena Horne and Ella Fitgerald. All of the performances are available elsewhere...
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W/ Ella Fitzgerald & Coleman Hawkins. A fine three-record set. The title is pretentious, but the album does offer plenty of great music and a cross-section of swing,...
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This two-CD set (originally out as three LPs) features the contents of a single Jazz at the Philharmonic concert held in Tokyo. There are mini-sets by the Oscar Peterson...
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Voices of the Century: Priceless Jazz is a three-disc box set that contains the individual Priceless Jazz volumes from Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Carmen McRae....
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With cooperation from the Verve and Columbia Legacy catalogs, the Ken Burns Jazz series on CD individually spotlights the musical excellence of 22 jazz originators whose...
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The music on this Baldwin Street CD was all previously unreleased. The great Ella Fitzgrald is heard during four radio broadcasts from Birdland, along with a few selections...
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This budget-priced 12-song compilation provides the listener a quick introduction to the work of Ella Fitzgerald. The collection focuses mainly on her work in the 1950s for...
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This budget CD is better than it looks. Although there are two numbers taken from a 1940 broadcast, all of the other selections date from a pair of 1949 performances in...
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Although the subject of countless roundups, regal chanteuse Ella Fitzgerald guarantees nothing less than a quality mix. A balm for migraines and perfect for nights at home,...
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This combines two double-discs of Fitzgerald's earliest work in one deluxe package. The first double-disc covers her recordings with the Chick Webb band between 1935 and...
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The four-CD retrospective The Legendary Decca Recordings represented both an attempt to present the essence of Ella Fitzgerald's two-decade tenure at Decca Records and to...
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This CD reissues Ella Fitzgerald's second studio session with Duke Ellington, following her first (the Ellington Songbook) by eight years. The underrated set begins quietly...
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The 1995 Decca release The Best of Ella Fitzgerald was compiled by her Decca producer to commemorate her 75th birthday. As a result, it's not a straight hits compilation; it...
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Part of a Fantasy sampler series that features musicians (and in this case a notable vocalist) performing the blues, this CD features Ella Fitzgerald on 11 performances...
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The second of Ella Fitzgerald's famed Songbook series features her singing 34 of the best songs co-written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The arrangements by Buddy...
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The Best of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong On Verve contains a selection of 15 duets the two jazz legends recorded for the label over the years. Clearly, this set isn't...
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Priceless Jazz Collection is a budget-priced compilation that intends to give neophytes an affordable introduction to Ella Fitzgerald's Decca recordings. Although purists...
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This two-disc package features highlights from several concerts by Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald during the Le Festival International de Jazz d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins in...
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In order to recycle its holdings yet again, Verve hit upon a fascinating gimmick: get celebrity guest "DJs" to select the tracks and provide the liner notes. So here, Joe...
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By no means does this CD contain all of the Gershwin that Ella and Louis recorded together for Norman Granz, nor is it entirely an Ella/Louis album. Rather, it is a...
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Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald is an excellent 18-track collection that features many of her best recordings, which also happen to be among her most popular,...
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This is an eight-CD set more for Duke Ellington fanatics than for general listeners. Originally, some of the music came out as a two-LP set (Ella and Duke at the Cote...
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Although it shouldn't be mistaken for a definitive compilation of their work together, Jazz 'Round Midnight is a good sampler of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's duets...
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Easy Living 1/1/1986, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
One of a trio of duo albums with guitarist Joe Pass. Ella's voice isn't quite up to this much exposure at this point, but her personality still comes through....
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For her third duo recording with guitarist Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald swings 15 mostly familiar standards that range from "My Ship" and "Don't Be That Way" to "Why Don't You...
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A 1971 live recording, from when Ella Fitzgerald was still at the peak of her vocal powers, Ella à Nice isn't one of the vocalist's all-time greatest live recordings, but...
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This CD places Ella Fitzgerald (then 60) in an unusual setting. Joined only by organist Jackie Davis and drummer Louie Bellson, she tackles a wide variety of material that...
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Nicely varied set with support from her longtime accompanist, legendary pianist Tommy Flanagan, plus some all-star jamming on an especially hot "C-Jam Blues." The best of...
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This two-CD set (a reissue of an earlier two-Lp set plus six previously unreleased numbers) brings back a memorable Carnegie Hall concert that both features and pays tribute...
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Ella Fitzgerald, who in the late '50s recorded the very extensive George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, revisits their music on this duet outing with pianist Andre Previn. Her...
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There have been many recordings of the music from the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, but this is one of the more rewarding ones. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald sing all...
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Ella Fitzgerald's Berlin concert of Feb. 13, 1960, highlighted by her ad-lib version of "Mack the Knife," ais considered a classic. The performance on this CD dates from the...
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During the late '50s, Ella Fitzgerald continued her series of "songbook" records with The Gershwin Song Book, releasing four albums of songs written by George and Ira...
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An anthology featuring some hits Ella Fitzgerald made during her days on Decca from the late '30s into the '50s. It's a decent package, but has been supplanted in value by...
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With her signing to Verve in 1956, Ella Fitzgerald (under producer Norman Granz's guidance) began a series of Songbook projects in which the singer (backed by orchestras)...
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Simply a grand and eloquent performance put together by Verve records highlighting the best years of Ella Fitzgerald -- that sassy, charming legendary singer in jazz. The...
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After an auspicious beginning with the Chick Webb band and long solo run featuring a celebrated string of songbook albums on Verve (Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers &...
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This is a great early career overview with recordings ranging from the early Decca years of the '30s through her development as a jazz singer in the '40s and on to her...
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This attractive two-CD set, released to celebrate Fitzgerald's 75th birthday, is a perfect greatest-hits collection spanning the first half of her very productive career....
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Ella Fitzgerald's tenure at Decca Records has been criticized, especially in comparison to her subsequent stay at Verve, for the mediocrity of the material she recorded and...
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Are you one of those people who can't walk through the jazz section without mooning over the lavishly packaged and heart-droppingly expensive sixteen-disc Complete Ella...
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Covering an important six-year period in Ella Fitzgerald's career, this two-CD set contains some of the highlights of the period as she develops from a top big-band singer...
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For those who cannot afford to slurge on the entire epic 16-CD box of the complete Songbooks -- and I suspect that means most of us -- here's a formidable alternate, up to a...
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During her long career, every once in awhile Ella Fitzgerald would attempt to "get with it" and record contemporary pop tunes. In 1968 for a live concert with a big band and...
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Recorded during the period of time when Ella Fitzgerald cut her famous series of "songbooks," this set (which in 1999 was reissued on CD) is a bit of a hodge-podge, drawing...
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Organist Bill Doggett had a rare chance on this album to write swinging charts for a big band. Ella Fitzgerald is in the spotlight throughout, mostly singing swing-era songs...
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There have been a number of Ella Fitzgerald collections called First Lady of Song (the phrase is also employed in the title of a biography of the singer), and one can't help...
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I Got a Guy collects 18 tracks of Ella Fitzgerald's sweet vocal swing, all presumably from the late '30s (though no recording notes are included). Though Fitzgerald's...
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While this budget-line release isn't the best way to collect Ella Fitzgerald's seasonal recordings -- an original LP like 1960's Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas is much...
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Included here are 30 standards arranged into six extended medleys, showcasing Fitzgerald's extraordinary interpretative powers. Benny Carter is in charge of the arrangements...
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Although Count Basie gets cobilling with Ella Fitzgerald on this concert recording from the 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival, the veteran pianist is only on the final of the 11...
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A Classy Pair 1/1/1979, Yahoo! Music, Richard C. Walls
A lovely match-up of Ella and the Count Basie Orchestra with arrangements by Benny Carter....
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This studio album matches together Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra 16 years after they first recorded together. Basie's sidemen are unfortunately restricted in...
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Taken from a Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, Ella Fitzgerald is backed by pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jo Jones on two...
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This CD from the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival has a typical late-period set from Ella Fitzgerald. Backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio (with bassist Keter Betts and drummer...
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Even though Ella Fitzgerald performs 14 religious hymns and the arrangements (which use the Ralph Carmichael Choir and Orchestra) are tasteful and reverent, she cannot help...
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Another typically wonderful CD reissue of Ella Fitzgerald in her prime, this set augments the original LP (which finds Ella joined by pianist Lou Levy, guitarist Herb Ellis,...
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Ella Fitzgerald had the ability to personalize some of the most recognizable material from the foremost songwriters in American popular music history. In this instance, the...
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This is one of Fitzgerald's most enjoyable recordings from her later years. With pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Bobby Durham...
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Vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and bandleader/pianist Count Basie came together on a July (15 & 16) 1963 date arranged by Quincy Jones. It was originally issued as Ella & Basie!....
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong make for a charming team on this CD. Accompanied by pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Buddy...
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Stylistically, singer Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter/singer Louis Armstrong had very different histories; he started out in Dixieland before branching out into classic jazz...
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For this Pablo set (reissued on CD), Ella Fitzgerald is heard on half of the program in duets with pianist Oscar Peterson and for the remainder in trios with Peterson and...
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A tasty sampler of Ella Fitzgerald's Verve recordings with the Duke Ellington orchestra, this disc draws from three albums: the 1957 classic, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke...
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This recording features performances by Ella Fitgerald with Count Basie's Orchestra and the duo of guitarist Joe Pass and bassist Niels Pedersen, all recorded at the same...
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Originally released on Atlantic as Ella Loves Cole and then reissued on Pablo with two extra cuts from 1978, this set features the great Ella Fitzgerald (still in excellent...
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Ella Fitzgerald's songbook packages were landmark achievements, as she demonstrated that jazz treatments of popular composers could reach the mass audience. This one was no...
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Of all the celebrated Songbooks explored by Ella Fitzgerald, her two Duke Ellington sets are (not too surprisingly) the most jazz-oriented. This double-LP finds her singing...
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CD reissue featuring Ella Fitzgerald's flowing vocals and Marty Paich's Dek-tette band backing her. This was among several hit albums that Fitzgerald enjoyed in the '50s,...
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Although billed as a Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, the music on this CD from the Swedish Tax label is not as spontaneous or as exciting as one would expect from JATP....
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Anthology containing cuts Ella Fitzgerald recorded in the late '30s prior to joining the Chick Webb band. It features her vocals accompanied by Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams,...
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This 1968 hit album represented a change in style after her switch to the Capitol. It was re-released in 1978 as Ella Fitzgerald Sings Christmas. ~ David A. Milberg, All...
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An amalgamation of two previous albums, the material here is predominately contemporary pop. Ella puts her Midas touch on compositions by Randy Newman, Bacharach/David,...
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Nelson Riddle, whose arrangements were an asset on some of Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook projects, also made two albums with her during 1961: this one plus Ella Swings Gently...
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In 1961 Ella Fitzgerald recorded two albums with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra. Her voice was in peak form and, even if the backup band was somewhat anonymous, Fitzgerald...
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This attractive three-CD set gives listeners an overview of Ella Fitzgerald's Verve recordings, although the inclusion of seven previously unissued cuts (in addition to 44...
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The second of three duet albums by Ella Fitzgerald and guitarist Joe Pass (which has been reissued on CD) finds the duo uplifting 14 superior standards with subtle...
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This double CD gives listeners some of the highlights from Ella Fitzgerald's period with Verve, 32 performances divided into "Monuments of Swing" and "Ballads & Blues."...
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Ella Fitzgerald's very first LP (a ten-inch) was this gem. In duets with pianist Ellis Larkins, eight Gershwin songs are given intimate and lightly swinging treatment and...
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Ella Fitzgerald's idea to sing the songbooks of major writers proved smart, savvy, and artful. By the time she began to record Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book in 1960, she...
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A single disc culled from the two-record set to make more money for the label. First class. All the songbook dates are masterful. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music...
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Of all of her Songbooks (which are now available on the remarkable 16-CD set The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books), the Harold Arlen and Duke Ellington sets are the most...
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Jazz Round Midnight is a good budget-priced collection of 14 songs Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Verve. It never tries to be a definitive retrospective, choosing to...
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By 1963, Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook series had almost run its course and was becoming much less ambitious in scope. Her Jerome Kern set features her interpretations of 14...
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Along with her Rodgers and Hart collection, this is one of the best of Ella Fitzgerald's songbooks. Fitzgerald's assured and elegant voice is a perfect match for Mercer's...
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If the dates are accurate, this LP contains a very similar program to the two reissued on the CD Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House but actually took place a couple weeks...
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Ella Fitzgerald was unaccompanied by an orchestra arranged by Frank DeVol for this fine studio session; the CD reissue has been augmented by four selections recorded a month...
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Ella Fitzgerald, 42 years after her recording debut, showed on this late concert recording that she still had the magic. Backed by pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Keter...
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In 1950, six years before her acclaimed Songbook series for Verve, Fitzgerald recorded eight George and Ira Gershwin classics in intimate duets with the sensitive and...
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On this four-CD set are some of Ella Fitzgerald's finest live performances during the years she was managed by Norman Granz. All of the material (which is taken from ten...
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GRP on this two-CD set reissues 42 of the 69 recordings that Ella Fitzgerald cut during a two-and-one-half-year period. Not as valuable as the European Classics "complete"...
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Ella Fitzgerald was never thought of as a blues singer but she does a surprisingly effective job on the ten blues included on this CD reissue including Bessie Smith's...
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Volume 1 is with Ellington's orchestra, Volume 2 is with smaller groups including Ben Webster, Stuff Smith, and Oscar Peterson. Outstanding recordings, worthwhile both as...
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This two-CD set contains 43 of the best recordings that Ella Fitzgerald recorded during her apprentice period with Chick Webb's Orchestra. Although only 16 years old at the...
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Originally released in 1960 as A Swinging Christmas, this album is representative of Fitzgerald's Verve label career. ~ David A. Milberg, All Music...
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Ella Fitzgerald was at the peak of her form during her 1960 tour of Europe. Her Berlin concert is most remembered for her hilariously inventive version of "Mack the Knife,"...
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This is a most unusual Ella Fitzgerald recording, reissued on CD by Verve. Recorded around the time when she performed some of these songs for the film Let No Man Write My...
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It is difficult to know where to begin when approaching an artist as wonderful as Ella Fitzgerald, especially when covering a revered recording like Sings the Irving Berlin...
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This second and final volume of Ella Fitzgerald's superb Rodgers & Hart songbook matches the high standard of the first, thanks to another beguiling mix of ballads and...
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The songbooks are a good introduction to Ella and, because she takes liberties so judiciously, to the great American popular song repertoire as well. This is a good...
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The Songbooks presents three tracks each from Ella Fitzgerald's tributes to the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hart (the latter gets a...
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This set of duets with guitarist Joe Pass finds Ella Fitzgerald near the end of her career. Her voice mostly hinted at her former greatness and the setting was perhaps too...
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On this budget reissue release from Drive Archive, 13 early Ella Fitzgerald records (eight with Chick Webb's band and five with the orchestra after the drummer's early death...
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Ella Fitzgerald got her professional start with Chick Webb's orchestra in 1935, and after Webb's death on June 16, 1939 the band stayed together, fronted by the 22-year-old...
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Ella Fitzgerald is often cornered by history into the narrow confines of pop music and jazz vocals. Actually, she was a queen of song at a time when blues, jazz, and R&B...
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Two things stand out on this previously unreleased concert recording from 1970: first, Ella's irrepressible energy and girlish sense of humor, which she indulges at every...
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This recording could be considered a near-sibling to April In Paris, since several of its tracks date from sessions out of the same month. Others overlap with material cut...
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Ella Fitzgerald's recordings have been subject to extensive reissue in the 1990s, but if you just want to hear a lot of her early work in an undiscriminating fashion,...
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Released as part of Giants of Jazz's Immortal Concerts series, Ella Fitzgerald 1957-1958 contains highlights from three concerts: an October 1957 show at Los Angeles' Shrine...
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Ella Fitzgerald recorded so much, and so much of what she recorded was so good, that the notion of one album summing her up is all but ludicrous. That said, this two-disc...
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Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday at Newport presents the naturally intriguing results when Verve paired two sets recorded two days apart (over the 4th of July weekend) by...
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This CD from Denmark's Jazz Unlimited label spotlights NBC radio broadcasts of Ella Fitzgerald's performances at Savoy Ballroom in New York's Harlem section on January 22...
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This 16-track collection features Ella Fitzgerald in a variety of musical settings singing romantic songs of love. The disc covers the years 1950 to 1961 with songs taken...
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Whoever decided to put pianist Marty Paich and Ella Fitzgerald together in the studio in 1966 deserves a bit of credit for the great music on Whisper Not. Together,...
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Over the years, there have been different incarnations of Ella and Louis Again, which has been a single LP, a two-LP set, a single CD, and a two-CD audiophile set from...
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One of the forgotten live LPs from the career of vocal jazz's most impressive live artist, Ella at Juan-Les-Pins found Ella Fitzgerald at the Fifth Festival Mondial du Jazz...
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Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass made a number of studio recordings as a duo between 1973 and 1986 for Pablo, but this is their first concert CD to appear on the label. Composed...
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Ella Fitzgerald combined forces with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Marty Paich for this 1962 studio session covering selections from hit Broadway productions,...
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Ella Fitzgerald's entry in the Verve Diva Series is a 16-track compilation that selects tracks from the first three decades of her recording career. Beginning with 1938's...
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Signed by Norman Granz to Verve, the label he hoped to build around her, Ella Fitzgerald inaugurated her long association with one of the greatest jazz imprints by recording...
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Recorded just before and after the period that she made the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, Ella Fitzgerald is in fine form on this obscure LP, performing a dozen...
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Every time the whole lounge revival seems to have completely run its course, along comes a compilation that's packed with so much great music that it can't help but rekindle...
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A fine gem among the diamonds of Ella Fitzgerald's late-'50s period with Verve, Hello Love may not have approached the quality of her songbooks, but it did allow her to sing...
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By 1963, Ella Fitzgerald's Songbook series had almost run its course and was becoming much less ambitious in scope. Her Jerome Kern set, Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook, ...
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The first of a five-volume series from the obscure British label Acrobat, The Legendary, Vol. 1 concentrates on the series of late-'30s sides recorded by Ella Fitzgerald at...
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The second in a five-volume series from the obscure British label Acrobat, The Legendary, Vol. 2 concentrates on the series of mid-'30s sides recorded by Ella Fitzgerald at...
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Though she recorded often during the early '60s, Ella Fitzgerald had mostly been seen in jazz settings, whether small group (Bill Doggett) or big band (Count Basie). Hello,...
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