![]() ![]() It’s not difficult to hear why many think Ella is the best jazz singer of the 20th century. When she goes into the chorus of “We’ll have Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island too,” she swings it so effortlessly. It includes “Manhattan” which has one of the most sublime moments on any Ella recording. It is a beautiful album, full of standards that everyone knows and loves, but in Ella’s hands these song become even more special. Trumpeter, Maynard Ferguson, Milt Bernhart’s trombone, Herb Geller, and Ted Nash and Bud Shank doubling on clarinets and saxophone, Barney Kessel on guitar, and drummer Alvin Stoller.Įlla Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook did even better than the Cole Porter Songbook on the Billboard album charts, making No.11 on the chart in March 1957. Like its predecessor it features the cream of West Coast session musicians, many of whom graced the fabulous recordings that Frank Sinatra was making around the same time in the same studio. On August 21, 1956, Ella, Granz, and Bregman began work on their next songbook: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook. 18 on the list of bestsellers for the whole year, one that was dominated by soundtrack albums. By the end of the year, the double LP was No. In September Ella was the headliner on the annual Jazz at the Philharmonic autumn tour of America. 15 on the Billboard Best Sellers list after Verve had taken an extensive advertising campaign in Esquire, The New Yorker, High Fidelity, and a dozen Sunday Newspapers across America. She's front and center, with halos of air surrounding her voice, and a band laid out behind her on a large soundstage.The 32 track Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook came out on May 15, 1956, as a double album and sold for $9.96. Fitzgerald's pure voice and impeccable diction-on tongue twisters like "I Wish I Were In Love Again"-are beautifully captured. Most highly recommended!" - Michael Fremer, There is no way in hell any digital edition of this could sound as genuine as this double 45. "Bernie Grundman nails the mastering helping to bring to life a superb project deserving of rejuvenation. This album more than demonstrates Ella Fitzgerald's excellent powers of expression and her brilliant modulations. Just what was the name? Put the Ella Sings The Rodgers And Hart Songbook album on your turntable and you're guaranteed to recall "The Lady Is A Tramp," "Spring Is Here" and "It Never Entered My Mind." All these and many more excellent ballads flowed out of the pens of the songwriting team.īut don't make the mistake of associating merely scat singing taken at a cracking pace with the most famous and the BEST jazz vocalist between 19. It's something most everyone has experienced: whether at one of the great jazz festivals in Berlin, Montreux or Paris, or in a small, provincial jazz club which exudes the charm of a dingy jazz cavern in the Fifties - you sit, listen, and then rack your brain to remember the name of the number which the young jazz musician is playing with all his heart. Only 2500 Numbered Limited Edition Copies Worldwide!Įlla Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the Original Analog Master Tapes! ![]() Michael Fremer Rated 11/10 Music, 10/10 Sound!!! TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the December 2010 Issue of The Absolute Sound!įeatured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the November 2010 Issue of Stereophile! Mastered By Bernie Grundman - 2,500 Numbered Limited Edition ORG Original Recordings Group - ORG055 - AAA 100% Analogueġ80 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Pressed at RTI - Verve MG VS-64022 AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head ![]()
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