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 - Ralph Carmichael
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Ralph Carmichael Orchestra,
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Ralph Carmichael
- Away in a Manger - Ralph Carmichael
- Joy to the World - Ralph Carmichael
- First No?l - Ralph Carmichael Orchestra,
- Silent Night - Ralph Carmichael
- O Come All Ye Faithful - Ralph Carmichael
- Sleep, My Little Jesus - Ralph Carmichael Orchestra,
- Angels We Have Heard on High - Ralph Carmichael
- O Little Town of Bethlehem - Ralph Carmichael Orchestra,
- We Three Kings - Ralph Carmichael
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Ralph Carmichael
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
Description of Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas Album
There's rarely--if ever--been another singer like Ella Fitzgerald, whose glowing personality and seamless singing talents always make it sound deceptively easy to sing as beautifully as she did. Cool phrasing, wonderful intonation, and a guileless voice (perfect for Christmas music) were just a few of her vocal trademarks. Fitzgerald's Christmas record (first released in 1967), however, seems geared more toward mainstream fans and thus may disappoint those keener on her jazz orientation. That said, faithful vocal renditions and arrangements of classics such as "O Holy Night" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" find Ella in her simple but elegant, heartfelt best. One could quibble with the schmaltzy backing vocals that color standards like "We Three Kings" and the more playful "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." But with someone like this queen of song leading the mix, you might just find yourself joining in on the chorus. --Martin KellerTraditional Vocal Pop CDs
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