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• One of the few great ladies of jazz song, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) inflected each tune with her unique sense of swing. The songs selected here have been carefully chosen among her best works, composed by such names as Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, and Duke Ellington. Many of these tunes were taken from the celebrated song books that gained her enormous prestige. These are all studio recordings with the sole exception of her celebrated reading of Kurt Weill s Mack the Knife which was an absolute hit in her Ella in Berlin LP. The version of A-Tisket a-Tasket presented here is a 1957 reworking of her original hit, which she had first recorded with the Chick Webb orchestra in 1938. Antonio Carlos Jobim s Desafinado was one of Ella s first bossa nova recordings, taped when that music style was starting to win adepts in the United States, especially thanks to Stan Getz s incursions in the genre. Summertime and A Fine Romance present Ella singing amazing vocal duets with Louis Armstrong. Sophisticated Lady, from Ella s Duke Ellington Songbook, showcases her in a small group format featuring such stars as Ben Webster, Stuff Smith and Barney Kessel. Misty is a wonderful voice/ piano duet with her long-time accompanist, pianist Paul Smith.
• Artist: Ella Fitzgerald Label: New Continent Format: LP Units: 1 Country: USA & Europe Genre: Jazz Style: Cool Jazz, Swing

• A1 Blue Moon
  A2 I Love Paris
  A3 Summertime (With Louis Armstrong)
  A4 EvRy Time We Say Goodbye
  A5 Cheek To Cheek
  A6 The Lady Is A Tramp
  A7 A-Tisket A-Tasket
  B1 Get Happy
  B2 Misty
  B3 Sophisticated Lady
  B4 A Fine Romance (With Louis Armstrong)
  B5 LetS Fall In Love
  B6 Desafinado
  B7 Mack The Knife