Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Album
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Artist: Ella FitzgeraldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-01
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- O Holy Night
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Away In The Manger
- Joy To The World
- The First Noel
- Silent Night
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Sleep My Little Lord Jesus
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- We Three Kings
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Music reviews of Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Album
Music Review: NOT jazz, and definitely not Ella at her best
Rating: 3 Stars
This is a recording of Ella singing Christmas standards and singing 'em straight. It is NOT jazz. And it most definitely is not Ella at her best.
Ella enhances the Christmas standards with her clear beautiful voice, and some of the tunes here are done beautifully - "The First Noel," for example. "God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen" comes off all right too, even if Ella isn't allowed to swing it.
The choral arrangements backing her on many other tunes are a real annoyance. The additional voices just get in the way.
This is a disappointing collection, in all. For Ella's genius was as a jazz singer, and little of that genius comes through here. "Joy to the World" is a glimmering exception, where Ella was afforded just a little leeway in her phrasing, and manages briefly to get out in front of an otherwise overbearing chorus.
But if what you want is a jazzy rendition for the holidays, one that lets Ella swing things a bit, check out Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas, remastered and re-released with six more songs as Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas [Remastered]
Eric Alan Isaacson
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