Ella Fitzgerald - Ken Burns Jazz Collection: Ella Fitzgerald
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Artist: Ella FitzgeraldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- A-Tisket A-Tasket
- Vote For Mr. Rhythm
- Betcha Nickel
- Flyin' Home
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Smooth Sailing
- Lullaby Of Birdland
- Night and Day
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
- Sophisticated Lady
- Oh, Lady Be Good!
- Blue Skies
- Mack The Knife
- How High The Moon
- Blues In The Night
- (You'll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini
- A Night In Tunisia
- Shiny Stockings
Music reviews of Ken Burns Jazz Collection: Ella Fitzgerald
Music Review: Must Have Been A Tough Chore Putting This One Together
Rating: 5 Stars
I can just imagine Ken Burns sitting down, trying to decide what songs from the vast repertoire of the First Lady of Jazz to include in an 18-track CD. Almost nigh on impossible, although the opening track was certainly a no-brainer. Ella is one among very few artists who could have taken an 1800's nursery rhyme and turn it into a # 1 hit, which she did in 1938 with Chick Webb's orchestra on A-Tisket, A-Tasket.
After that, however, it must have been agony for Burns. What to include - what not to include? Track 2 was also a Chick Webb recording from 1938 with Ella on vocals, and for track 3 he includes one after she took over Webb's band following his untimely death in 1939 and changed the billing to Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra.
I just wish he hadn't skimmed over the 1940s, providing only 1945's Flying Home, done with Vic Schoen's orchestra, long-time collaborator with The Andrews Sisters. Although she's at her scat-singing best on the old 1939 Benny Goodman hit, that part of her career also included Five O'Clock Whistle and When My Sugar Walks Down The Street - both with Her Famous Orchestra, several duets with The Ink Spots [Cow-Cow Boogie, Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, I'm Beginning To See The Light], and another gem with The Delta Rhythm Boys, It's Only A Paper Room.
But it's hard - no impossible - to be critical of what he does include. ANYTHING this gallant lady recorded was and is priceless entertainment. Here the sound reproduction is fantastic, as are the liner notes by Phil Bailey, the contents discography, and the photographs of Ella with Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington.
For the record the accompanying artists on the other tracks sound like a Who's Who of Jazz: Ellis Larkins, Bill Doggett, Sy Oliver, Buddy Bregman, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson, Ben Webster, Stuff Smith, Paul Smith, Barney Kessel, Alvin Stoller, Roy Eldridge, J.J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Lester Young, Connie Kay, Paul Weston - to name just a few. All the names are shown for each track.
You can't have an Ella Fitzgerald collection without this one.
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Description of Ken Burns Jazz Collection: Ella Fitzgerald
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Throughout much of her career, Ella Fitzgerald was the reigning queen of jazz singers, applying her consummate musicality to uptempo swing and bop material, as well as the usual mix of ballads and show tunes. Fitzgerald's ability to swing was immediately apparent in her early work with drummer Chick Webb, which produced the novelty rhythm hit "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" from 1938. However, the breadth of her talent becomes apparent here with the inspired scat improvising on "Flying Home" from 1945 and the mature balladry of "Nice Work If You Can Get It," recorded with just the accompaniment of pianist Ellis Larkins in 1954. Fitzgerald is heard here in collaboration with some of the greatest names in jazz. There's a 1957 meeting with Louis Armstrong on "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and a 1963 encounter with the Basie band on "Shiny Stockings." There's also a sampling of her multivolume Song Book recordings, including a wonderful "Sophisticated Lady" with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster from the Ellington set. Live recordings with her working rhythm section, such as "How High the Moon," are filled with playful exuberance, but there's also restrained artfulness in the introduction to "Blue Skies" and the lyric concentration of "Blues in the Night." --Stuart Broomer
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