Ella Fitzgerald - Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (Dig)
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Artist: Ella FitzgeraldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
- Sweet And Lovely
- Let's Fall In Love
- Makin' Whoopee
- That Old Feeling
- I Remember You
- Moonlight Serenade
- Gone With The Wind
- Can't We Be Friends?
- Out Of This World - Ella Fitzgerlad
- My Old Flame
- East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
- Lullaby Of Broadway
Music reviews of Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (Dig)
Music Review: A CLASSIC RELEASE AT LAST ON CD!
Rating: 5 Stars
Ella fans, clamor and quake no more! This is one of the last albums we've been waiting for on CD (only Hello Dolly remains unreleased; keep the faith!) Here is Ella in absolutely stunning form, and abetted by the versatile Frank DeVol orchestra in the late 50's, with a folder full of classic gems of the Great American Songbook. There's no way you can miss. While half of the tracks could be considered "covers" (Ella would either re-record them later or had done them previously), there are a few surprises here, including the fooler of the album, the classic Johnny Mercer penned I REMEMBER YOU, with it's slow simmering opening verse giving way to a flag waving swinger. Definitely a different and swingin' treatment that might not work for anyone else. Her later version with Nelson Riddle in the 60's would be more true to the usual renditions of this classic, but this version makes for a good alternative. SWEET AND LOVELY, a done-to-death standard takes on new life here and the arrangement is crisp and swinging as well. Ella is in wonderful form and with Harry "Sweets" Edison's fills, this is the perfect opener to the album. GONE WITH THE WIND was one that Ella would carry through until the end of her career. She used it early on, in concerts, and covered it again here.A lighter version of Lady Day's "prelude to no kiss", MY OLD FLAME also shines as one of this set's standouts (was that a Plas Johnson sax solo at the break?) It's a shame that we don't have complete personnel listings included, but no complaints here; just thrilled to have this one on CD at last! And to be universally correct, we have a dreamy, straight forward version of MOONLIGHT SERENADE, and an easy going version of EAST OF THE SUN (And West Of The Moon) that grows steadily into a swinger. Yes, Ella has sung and swung for the swingers over the years, but this album just endears her more to we adoring fans.
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