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[image=WHFPjdXfb5] Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book [Original CD] VBR Year 1963 Tracks 1. Let's Begin 2:57 2. A Fine Romance 3:36 3. All The Things You Are 3:15 4. I'll Be Hard To Handle 3:48 5. You Couldn't Be Cuter 3:13 6. She Didn't Say Yes 3:20 7. I'm Old Fashioned 3:28 8. Remind Me 3:50 9. The Way You Look Tonight 4:28 10. Yesterdays 2:51 11. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 3:54 12. Why Was I Born? 3:45 Ella Fitzgerald recorded this album in 1963 under the keen eye of Jazz Impressario Norman Granz, who produced some of the most wonderful and cherished recordings of the 20th Century. The "Jerome Kern Songbook" is part of that magnificent Songbook series; every song on this recording is a gem and an integral part of the Great American Songbook. No one, and I mean no one, could sing a lyric like Ella. Nelson Riddle arranged and conducted the studio orchestra for this album, and the orchestra features some of the great musicians of the time, including Paul Smith (Ella's long-time pianist), Frank Flynn and Dick Nash. And oh! The songs! How about such classics as "A Fine Romance" or "The Way You Look Tonight"? And also "Yesterdays" and, from SHOWBOAT, a terrific rendition of "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine". This recording is a must-have in any collection.

[image=lua7QeoqOH] Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book VBR Year 1964 Tracks 1. Too Marvelous For Words 2:34 2. Early Autumn 3:52 3. Day In Day Out 2:50 4. Laura 3:45 5. This Time The Dream's On Me 2:57 6. Skylark 3:13 7. Single-O 3:23 8. Something's Gotta Give 2:36 9. Trav'lin Light 3:50 10. Midnight Sun 4:57 11. Dream 3:00 12. I Remember You 3:41 13. When A Woman Loves A Man 3:51 Ella Fitzgerald pays tribute to the great Johnny Mercer with this album of just a few of his greatest hits. Ella's tribute to Johnny is the only songbook she recorded for any lyricist--what an honor she paid to Mercer! Ella handles these beautiful numbers with sensitivity, grace and confidence. The CD proves her incredible vocal skills truly enhanced Johnny Mercer's artistry. The CD track set begins with "Too Marvelous For Words." The big band style arrangement by Nelson Riddle swings right along with Ella's vocal gymnastics. Great! Ella's excellent diction remains constant as she performs "Too Marvelous For Words." Love that piano with the horns in the middle of "Too Marvelous For Words!" "Day In, Day Out" presents Ella as a co-star with Nelson Riddle's arrangement; together Ella's voice and the musicians complement each other perfectly. Ella even scats a bit! What a fantastic love ballad. "Laura" comes from the movie of the same name; and the key changes on the musical arrangement work well. Ella sings this sweetly with great sensitivity which, combined with the music, gives "Laura" a haunting quality. Excellent! Ella swings ever so gently as she tells the story of how a man sees his former wife everywhere he goes. The horns and the strings bolster "Laura," too. "Skylark" starts with a beautiful flute arrangement; when Ella comes in the number shines like polished gold! Ella swings gently just as she did on "Laura;" and this works wonders for "Skylark." On the other hand, "Something's Gotta Give" gives us a bouncy, upbeat number that swings brightly. Ella delivers this with all her heart and the effect is absolutely electric! Ella never misses a note; and Nelson Riddle's arrangement uses the horns and percussion to carry the bulk of the melody. Listen for that sax solo, too--it's flawless. "Dream" features Ella singing a rarely heard opening verse. The arrangement backs up Ella while Ella takes the spotlight for "Dream." "Dream" is a romantic ballad; and the tempo is slightly faster than normal to add a bit of "bounce" and energy to this number. In addition, "I Remember You" gets the royal treatment from Ella and Nelson Riddle. "I Remember You" features Ella starting with a solo piano in the background and then the tune uses horns, Ella's vocals and a slower than normal tempo to make "I Remember You" a true masterpiece. Only Johnny Mercer could write lyrics like these! The liner notes have a miniature replica of the reverse of the record album jacket with its essay about Ella and this album by Benny Green. Samuel Brylawski also contributes an essay about this album. The picture of Ella singing on the CD front cover shows good taste. Ella Fitzgerald gives us a special, rare treat with her songbook album of numbers by the immortal Johnny Mercer. In Ella's competent hands, Johnny Mercer's lyrics shine brighter than ever before. Ella's flawless singing on this album will brighten your day as you listen and you'll know after you listen just once that this CD is a keeper. I highly recommend this CD for Ella Fitzgerald fans, Johnny Mercer fans and people who enjoy classic pop vocals.

[image=NRSdqJVLB0] Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book VBR Year 1957 Disc 1 1. Have You Met Miss Jones? 3:40 2. You Took Advantage Of Me 3:27 3. A Ship Without A Sail 4:07 4. To Keep My Love Alive 3:33 5. Dancing On The Ceiling 4:06 6. The Lady Is A Tramp 3:21 7. With A Song In My Heart 2:43 8. Manhattan 2:48 9. Johnny One Note 2:11 10. I Wish I Were In Love Again 2:36 11. Spring Is Here 3:37 12. It Never Entered My Mind 4:05 13. This Can't Be Love 2:54 14. Thou Swell 2:02 15. My Romance 3:42 16. Where Or When 2:46 17. Little Girl Blue 3:52 Disc 2 1. Give It Back To The Indians 3:10 2. Ten Cents A Dance 4:06 3. There's A Small Hotel 2:48 4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 3:46 5. Ev'rything I've Got 3:21 6. I Could Write A Book 3:38 7. The Blue Room 2:29 8. My Funny Valentine 3:52 9. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered 7:01 10. Mountain Greenery 2:14 11. Wait Till You See Her 1:30 12. Lover 3:16 13. Isn't It Romantic? 3:00 14. Here In My Arms 1:52 15. Blue Moon 3:11 16. My Heart Stood Still 3:03 17. I've Got Five Dollars 2:39 18. Lover (Mono Version) 3:15 Although neither the first nor the most fêted of Ella Fitzgerald's Songbooks, this collection drawn from the huge output of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers is unquestionably the best. What sets the Rodgers and Hart Songbook apart from the other albums in the series that Ella recorded for Norman Granz's Verve label, quite simply, is the quality of the material that she had to work with. Her voice was such a magisterial instrument and her command of the expressive power of words so subtle that she seldom performed anything which drew on the full scope all her abilities. In the course of this double album, we get to see every facet of her talent. With Hart and Rodgers, Ella's enormous generosity of spirit, her love for song and for singing, her sheer humanity are put wholeheartedly at the disposal of very great music. Make no mistake, this is a desert island album. Richard Rodgers is most widely known for his nicely conceived but largely undemanding settings of the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein - above all, perhaps, in 'Oklahoma' and 'The Sound of Music.' However, it has been recognised by many, especially jazz musicians, that Rodgers' earlier work with Lorenz Hart shows the full measure of his talents. When he worked with Hammerstein, the lyrics came first: the notoriously elusive Hart, on the other hand, preferred to write words for tunes that had already been composed. Before he was constrained by Hammerstein's trite little rhymes, Rodgers produced pieces that, among the great Broadway composers, are equalled in melodic suppleness and harmonic variety only by Jerome Kern. Hart, in return, wrote lyrics that are by turns scintillating in their wit and searing in their poignancy. Some of his experiments in rhyme are deliciously knowing: "Beans could get no keener re/ception in a beanery ... We could find no cleaner re/treat from life's machinery"; "The city's clamor can never spoil/ The dreams of a boy and 'goil'"; "When love congeals/ It soon reveals/ The faint aroma of performing seals,/ The double-crossing of a pair of heels"; and so on. Yet what ultimately makes Hart's lyrics so great is their apparent naturalness. There is a conversational ease about all his words, and he never needed to mangle sentences for the sake of scanning or rhyming. Song never seemed so unforced an extension of normal speech, and therefore never so touching.

[image=ux6VQ7rE85] Ella Fitzgerald - The Great American Songbook VBR Year 2007 Disc 1 1. Manhattan 2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 3. Lady Is a Tramp 4. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) 5. If You Can't Sing It (You'll Have to 6. Taking a Chance on Love 7. Soon 8. Black Coffee 9. I've Got the World on a String 10. Someone to Watch Over Me 11. That Old Black Magic 12. Old Devil Moon 13. I Can't Get Started 14. Between the Devil and the Deep 15. You'll Never Know 16. Lover Come Back to Me 17. But Not for Me 18. It Might as Well Be Spring 19. I've Got You Under My Skin 20. Night and Day 21. My Funny Valentine 22. Love Is the Tender Trap 23. My One and Only Love 24. Smooth Sailing Disc 2 1. Oh Lady Be Good 2. Body and Soul 3. How High the Moon 4. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 5. Angel Eyes 6. Maybe 7. Looking for a Boy 8. I've Got a Crush on You 9. Air Mail Special 10. Dream a Little Dream of Me 11. Baby It's Cold Outside 12. You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You 13. Basin Street Blues 14. Sentimental Journey 15. Thanks for the Memory 16. Moanin' Low 17. Walkin' by the River 18. An Empty Ballroom 19. I Wished on the Moon 20. My One and Only 21. How Long Has This Been Going On 22. Happy Talk 23. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair 24. I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin' 25. Crying

[IMG]http://image.bayimg.com/075f9fe58ee3f9f2396400eff16a4579ac8fef0f.jpg[/IMG] Louis Armstrong + Ella Fitzgerald 24 Bit Vinyl Pack Genre: Jazz, Blues, Vocal Style: Bop, Standards, Swing, Early Jazz, Swing Source: Vinyl Codec: FLAC Bit Rates: 2,800 - 3,000 kbps Bits Per Sample: 24 Sample Rate: 96,000 Hz Porgy & Bess Porgy & Bess (2010) Ella & Louis Ella & Louis Again What a Wonderful World This is LA All Stars Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, and he became the most influential musician in the music's history. As a trumpet virtuoso, his playing, beginning with the 1920s studio recordings made with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, charted a future for jazz in highly imaginative, emotionally charged improvisation. For this, he is revered by jazz fans. But Armstrong also became an enduring figure in popular music, due to his distinctively phrased bass singing and engaging personality, which were on display in a series of vocal recordings and film roles. Armstrong had a difficult childhood. William Armstrong, his father, was a factory worker who abandoned the family soon after the boy's birth. Armstrong was brought up by his mother, Mary (Albert) Armstrong, and his maternal grandmother. He showed an early interest in music, and a junk dealer for whom he worked as a grade-school student helped him buy a cornet, which he taught himself to play. He dropped out of school at 11 to join an informal group, but on December 31, 1912, he fired a gun during a New Year's Eve celebration, for which he was sent to reform school. He studied music there and played cornet and bugle in the school band, eventually becoming its leader. He was released on June 16, 1914, and did manual labor while trying to establish himself as a musician. He was taken under the wing of cornetist Joe "King" Oliver, and when Oliver moved to Chicago in June 1918, he replaced him in the Kid Ory Band. He moved to the Fate Marable band in the spring of 1919, staying with Marable until the fall of 1921. ***** "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was arguably the finest female jazz singer of all time (although some may vote for Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday). Blessed with a beautiful voice and a wide range, Fitzgerald could outswing anyone, was a brilliant scat singer, and had near-perfect elocution; one could always understand the words she sang. The one fault was that, since she always sounded so happy to be singing, Fitzgerald did not always dig below the surface of the lyrics she interpreted and she even made a downbeat song such as "Love for Sale" sound joyous. However, when one evaluates her career on a whole, there is simply no one else in her class. One could never guess from her singing that Ella Fitzgerald's early days were as grim as Billie Holiday's. Growing up in poverty, Fitzgerald was literally homeless for the year before she got her big break. In 1934, she appeared at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, winning an amateur contest by singing "Judy" in the style of her idol, Connee Boswell. After a short stint with Tiny Bradshaw, Fitzgerald was brought to the attention of Chick Webb by Benny Carter (who was in the audience at the Apollo). Webb, who was not impressed by the 17-year-old's appearance, was reluctantly persuaded to let her sing with his orchestra on a one-nighter. She went over well and soon the drummer recognized her commercial potential. Starting in 1935, Fitzgerald began recording with Webb's Orchestra, and by 1937 over half of the band's selections featured her voice. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" became a huge hit in 1938 and "Undecided" soon followed. During this era, Fitzgerald was essentially a pop/swing singer who was best on ballads while her medium-tempo performances were generally juvenile novelties. She already had a beautiful voice but did not improvise or scat much; that would develop later.

[img]https://yuq.me/u/1807948/CfePJ47a1d.png[/img] Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz vocalist[1] with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6).[2] She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook.[3] Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus albums, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush. Contents Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, the daughter of Temperance "Tempie" and William Fitzgerald.[4] The pair separated soon after her birth, and Ella and her mother went to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with Tempie's longtime boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva. Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in 1923. She and her family were Methodists and were active in the Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church, and she regularly attended worship services, Bible study, and Sunday school.[5][6] In her youth, Fitzgerald wanted to be a dancer, although she loved listening to jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and The Boswell Sisters. She idolized the lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her."[7] In 1932, her mother died from a heart attack.[4] Following this trauma, Fitzgerald's grades dropped dramatically, and she frequently skipped school. Abused by her stepfather, she ran away to her aunt[8] and, at one point, worked as a lookout at a bordello and also with a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner.[9] When the authorities caught up with her, she was first placed in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale, Bronx.[10] However, when the orphanage proved too crowded, she was moved to the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson, New York, a state reformatory. Eventually she escaped and for a time was homeless.[8] She made her singing debut at 17 on November 21, 1934, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. She pulled in a weekly audience at the Apollo and won the opportunity to compete in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights". She had originally intended to go on stage and dance, but, intimidated by the Edwards Sisters, a local dance duo, she opted to sing instead in the style of Connee Boswell. She sang Boswell's "Judy" and "The Object of My Affection," a song recorded by the Boswell Sisters, and won the first prize of US$25.00.[11] In January 1935, Fitzgerald won the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House. She met drummer and bandleader Chick Webb there. Webb had already hired singer Charlie Linton to work with the band and was, The New York Times later wrote, "reluctant to sign her....because she was gawky and unkempt, a diamond in the rough."[7] Webb offered her the opportunity to test with his band when they played a dance at Yale University. She began singing regularly with Webb's Orchestra through 1935 at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Fitzgerald recorded several hit songs with them, including "Love and Kisses" and "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)". But it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", a song she co-wrote, that brought her wide public acclaim. Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed "Ella and her Famous Orchestra" with Ella taking on the role of nominal bandleader. Fitzgerald recorded nearly 150 songs with the orchestra before it broke up in 1942, "the majority of them novelties and disposable pop fluff".[7] Birth name Ella Jane Fitzgerald Born April 25, 1917 Newport News, Virginia Died June 15, 1996 (aged 79) Beverly Hills, California Genres Swing, traditional pop, vocal jazz Occupations Vocalist Instruments Piano Years active 1934–1993 Labels Capitol, Decca, Pablo, Reprise, Verve Website Official website Allcredit to tifon ET

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook [/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded February 7 – March 27, 1956, Hollywood, Los Angeles CD Released: 25 May 1999 Label: Verve Format:Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://image.betamonline.com/sdimages/upc08/8436028694549.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records. Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Songbook series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald's manager, (and the producer of many of her albums), Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldolf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, "My, what marvellous diction that girl has".[/color] [/size] [size=150][color=deepskyblue]Frank Devol backs Ella with a 1940s-style big band with enough modernist, Atomic Age elements tossed in to stop it from being just an empty exercise in nostalgia. Fitzgerald finds the perfect marriage between mainstream pop and jazz singing -- her harmonic improvisations are extraordinary. A real treat.[/color][/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 1:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://www.coverdude.com/covers/ella-fitzgerald-the-cole-porter-songbook-volume-1-front-cover-37040.jpg[/img] [size=150]01. All Through The Night (3:19) 02. Anything Goes (3:24) 03. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) (3:03) 04. Too Darn Hot (3:51) 05. In The Still Of The Night (2:41) 06. I Get A Kick Out Of You (4:03) 07. Do I Love You (3:53) 08. Always True To You In My Fashion (2:51) 09. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) (3:35) 10. Just One Of Those Things (3:33) 11. Ev'ry Time We Say Good-Bye (3:35) 12. All Of You (1:46) 13. Begin The Beguine (3:40) 14. Get Out Of Town (3:25) 15. I Am In Love (4:09) 16. From This Moment On (3:17)[/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 2:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://www.coverdude.com/covers/ella-fitzgerald-the-cole-porter-songbook-volume-2-front-cover-37035.jpg[/img] [size=150]01. I Love Paris (5:02) 02. You Do Something To Me (2:24) 03. Ridin' High (3:24) 04. Easy To Love (3:28 ) 05. It's All Right With Me (3:10) 06. Why Can't You Behave (5:07) 07. What Is This Thing Called Love (2:06) 08. You're The Top (3:36) 09. Love For Sale (5:56) 10. It's DeLovely (2:45) 11. Night And Day (3:07) 12. Ace In The Hole (2:01) 13. So In Love (3:53) 14. I've Got You Under My Skin (2:45) 15. I Concentrate On You (3:15) 16. Don't Fence Me In (3:20)[/size] [img]http://img.lavamus.com/images/bio/538.jpg[/img]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book[/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded October 19–21, 1964 at Radio Recorders Studio 10-H, Hollywood CD Released: 1984 Label: Verve Format: Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rGWNFIJXL.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book a 1964 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, focusing on the songs of Johnny Mercer. This was Fitzgerald's fifth and final collaboration with Riddle during her years on the Verve label. The album is notable as Ella's only songbook to concentrate on the work of a lyricist. Riddle's lush arrangements interact most beautifully with Fitzgerald on ballads like "Midnight Sun" and "Skylark". Fitzgerald's impeccable swing is most evident on "Something's Gotta Give" and "Too Marvelous for Words".[/color][/size] [img]http://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/files/2010/07/Johnny-Mercer.jpg[/img] Johnny Mercer [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 01. Too Marvelous For Words (2:33) 02. Early Autumn (3:51) 03. Day In, Day Out (2:49) 04. Laura (3:44) 05. This Time The Dream's On Me (2:54) 06. Skylark (3:12) 07. Single 'O (3:19) 08. Something's Gotta Give (2:36) 09. Trav'lin' Light (3:48 ) 10. Midnight Sun (4:54) 11. Dream (2:59) 12. I Remember You (3:39) 13. When A Woman Loves A Man (3:51)[/size] [img]http://xroads.virginia.edu/~asi/musi212/emily/images/fitzgerald.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Personell[/b][/color] Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals Nelson Riddle, arranger and conductor Paul Smith on piano Plas Johnson on tenor sax Willy Smith on alto sax Buddy DeFranco on clarinet Frank Flynn on vibes [/size]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook[/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded January 5,6,7 1963 at Radio Recorders Studio 10H, Los Angeles CD Released: October 25, 1990 Label: Verve Format: Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bwXnt1LUL._SS500_.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]In contrast to the Johnny Mercer Songbook, (the only Songbook dedicated to a lyricist), this is the only Songbook where the composer does not contribute any of the lyrics.[/color][/size] [size=150][color=lime]Recorded under the keen eye of Jazz Impressario Norman Granz, who produced some of the most wonderful and cherished recordings of the 20th Century. The "Jerome Kern Songbook" is part of that magnificent Songbook series; every song on this recording is a gem and an integral part of the Great American Songbook. No one, and I mean no one, could sing a lyric like Ella. Nelson Riddle arranged and conducted the studio orchestra for this album, and the orchestra features some of the great musicians of the time, including Paul Smith (Ella's long-time pianist), Frank Flynn and Dick Nash.[/color][/size] [img]http://landing.com/riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/smokeg6.jpg[/img] Jerome Kern [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 1. Let's Begin" – 2:56 2. "A Fine Romance" – 3:36 3. "All the Things You Are" ) – 3:15 4. "I'll Be Hard to Handle" – 3:47 5. "You Couldn't Be Cuter" – 3:13 6. "She Didn't Say Yes" – 3:20 7. "I'm Old Fashioned" – 3:27 8. "Remind Me" – 3:50 9. "The Way You Look Tonight" – 4:28 10. "Yesterdays" – 2:51 11. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" – 3:54 12. "Why Was I Born?" – 3:44[/size] [img]http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ella-fitzgerald.jpg[/img]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook [/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded September 17–19, 1980, March 18–20, 1981 Hollywood, Los Angeles ReleasedL 1981 Label Pablo Format: Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/f/fitzge_ella_ellaabrac_101b.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]Though it is subtitled as such, this album is not usually considered part of Fitzgerald's 'Songbook' series, the last of the 'Songbook' albums having been recorded in 1964. It was Fitzgerald's first album of music devoted to a single composer since 1972's Ella Loves Cole, and it was her only album recorded entirely in the Bossa Nova style, though she had been singing Jobim's songs since the mid-1960s.[/color][/size] [img]http://www.pianored.com/images/jobim.jpg[/img] Antonio Carlos Jobim [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 1:[/b][/color] 01. Somewhere In The Hills 02. The Girl From Ipanema 03. Dindi 04. Off Key 05. Water To Drink 06. Triste 07. How Insensitive 08. He's A Carioca 09. A Felicidade 10. This Love That I've Found[/size] [img]http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/images/local/400/a4adff4b-3991-4a58-9423-25a4898a52ac.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 2:[/b][/color] 01. Dreamer 02. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars 03. Bonita 04. One Note Samba 05. Wave 06. Don't Ever Go Away 07. Song Of The Jet 08. Useless Landscape 09. Photograph [/size]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book [/b][/color][/size] [size=150]CD Released: October 9, 2001 Recorded in five sessions from August 1, 1960 - July 14 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles: Original Released: 1960 Label: Verve Format:Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://cover7.cduniverse.com/PhantomArt/Large/94/1665694.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Billy May. This album marked the only time that Fitzgerald worked with May.[/color][/size] [size=150][color=deepskyblue]The Harold Arlen Songbook is the sixth album in Fitzgerald's series of recordings of songs written by the pantheon of Broadway composers who formed the body of work now considered the Great American Songbook. The cover art is a drawing by Henri Matisse. [/color][/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 1:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wzrqVz-%2BL.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 1. Blues In The Night 2. Let's Fall In Love 3. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) 4. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 5. My Shining Hour 6. Hooray For Love 7. This Time The Dream's On Me 8. That Old Black Magic 9. I've Got The World On A String 10. Let's Take A Walk Around The Block 11. Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) 12. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive[/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 2:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/04/22/81/75/0004228175282_500X500.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 1. When The Sun Comes Out 2. Come Rain Or Come Shine 3. As Long As I Live 4. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe 5. It's Only A Paper Moon 6. Man That Got Away, The 7. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 8. It Was Written In The Stars 9. Get Happy 10. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 11. Out Of This World 12. Over The Rainbow 13. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead 14. Sing My Heart 15. Let's Take A Walk Around The Block - (alt) 16. Sing My Heart - (alternate take)[/size]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book [/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded March 13 - 19, 1958 CD Released: 27 Nov 2000 Label: Verve Format; Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519f4x4p7rL._SS500_.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin[/color][/size] [size=150][color=deepskyblue]It is difficult to know where to begin when approaching an artist as wonderful as Ella Fitzgerald, especially when covering a revered recording like Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book from the late '50s. This set includes two CDs with 32 songs chosen from Berlin's collection of nearly 800 songs. These selections are perfectly suited for Fitzgerald's voice and her romantic sensibility; they are happy, occasionally sad, and full of swinging rhythm. A few of these songs -- "Cheek to Cheek," "Puttin' on the Ritz," and "Blue Skies" -- will be most familiar; others, "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails," "Russian Lullaby," and "All By Myself" are as memorable but perhaps less known. Choices like "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" feature everything a listener would want in a song: intelligent lyrics, memorable melodies, and a strong emotional center. To say that Fitzgerald is in good voice for these recordings would be an understatement; her presentation here is simply regal.[/color][/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 1:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://www.tradebit.com/usr/mp3-album/pub/9002/341/341689/34168921.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 01 - Let's Face The Music And Dance 02 - You're Laughing At Me 03 - Let Yourself Go 04 - You Can Have Him 05 - Russian Lullaby 06 - Puttin' On The Ritz 07 - Get Thee Behind Me Satan 08 - Alexander's Ragtime Band 09 - Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails 10 - How About Me 11 - Cheek To Cheek 12 - I Used To Be Color Blind 13 - Lazy 14 - How Deep Is The Ocean 15 - All By Myself 16 - Remember[/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 2:[/b][/color][/size] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fnBugjlhL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Tracklist:[/b][/color] 1. Suppertime 2. How's Chances 3. Heat Wave 4. Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain) 5. You Keep Coming Back Like A Song 6. Reaching For The Moon 7. Slumming On Park Avenue 8. Song Is Ended, The (But The Melody Lingers On) 9. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket 10. Now It Can Be Told 11. Always 12. It's A Lovely Day Today 13. Change Partners 14. No Strings (I'm Fancy Free) 15. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 16. Blue Skies[/size]

[size=200][color=red][b]Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook [/b][/color][/size] [size=150]Recorded August 21 - 31, 1956 CD Released: 25 May 1999 Label: Verve Format: Mp3@320cbr[/size] [img]http://i017.radikal.ru/0910/6f/cea7a2bc5b11.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=orangered]Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.[/color][/size] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 1:[/b][/color] 01 - Have You Met Miss Jones 02 - You Took Advantage Of Me 03 - A Ship Without A Sail 04 - To Keep My Love Alive 05 - Dancing On The Ceiling (He Dances On My Ceiling) 06 - The Lady Is A Tramp 07 - With A Song In My Heart 08 - Manhattan 09 - Johnny One Note 10 - I Wish I Were In Love Again 11 - Spring Is Here 12 - It Never Entered My Mind 13 - This Can't Be Love 14 - Thou Swell 15 - My Romance 16 - Where Or When 17 - Little Girl Blue[/size] [img]http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/img_gal/3552_ella_fitzgerald.jpg[/img] [size=150][color=red][b]Disc 2:[/b][/color] 01 - Give It Back To The Indians 02 - Ten Cents A Dance 03 - There's A Small Hotel 04 - I Didn't Know What Time It Was 05 - Ev'rything I've Got 06 - I Could Write A Book 07 - Blue Room 08 - My Funny Valentine 09 - Bewitched 10 - Mountain Greenery 11 - Wait Till You See Her 12 - Lover 13 - Isn't It Romantic 14 - Here In My Arms 15 - Blue Moon 16 - My Heart Stood Still 17 - I've Got Five Dollars 18 – Lover[/size] [img]http://songbook1.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/rodgers-hart-portrait-1.jpg[/img] Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

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[center][img]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/3480/ellafitzgeraldellaabrac.jpg[/img] [b]Album[/b]................: Ella Abraça Jobim [b]Genre[/b]................: Jazz / Bossa Nova [b]Source[/b]...............: CD [b]Year[/b].................: 1981 [b]Ripper[/b]...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & Asus CD-S520 [b]Codec[/b]................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) [b]Version[/b]..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917 [b]Quality[/b]..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 59 %) Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit Tags.................: VorbisComment Information..........: Ripped by............: leonenero on 04/09/2012 Posted by............: leonenero on 05/09/2012 News Server..........: news.astraweb.com News Group(s)........: alt.binaries.sounds.flac.full_albums [b]Included[/b].............: NFO, LOG, PAR, CUE [b]Covers[/b]...............: Front Back CD --------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]Tracklisting[/b] --------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]1[/b]. Dreamer [04.54] [b]2[/b]. This love that I've found [05.16] [b]3[/b]. The girl from Ipanema [03.50] [b]4[/b]. Somewhere in the hills [03.56] [b]5[/b]. Photograph [03.48] [b]6[/b]. Wave [05.21] [b]7[/b]. Triste [04.06] [b]8[/b]. Quiet nights of quiet stars [05.39] [b]9[/b]. Water to drink [02.44] [b]10[/b]. Bonita [02.50] [b]11[/b]. Off key [03.41] [b]12[/b]. He's a Carioca [05.12] [b]13[/b]. Dindi [06.36] [b]14[/b]. How insensitive [02.59] [b]15[/b]. One note samba [03.52] [b]16[/b]. A felicidade [02.17] [b]17[/b]. Useless landscape [07.59] [b]Playing Time[/b].........: 01.15.09 [b]Total Size[/b]...........: 444,14 MB NFO generated on.....: 05/09/2012 8.14.34 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [i]Ella Abraça Jobim or Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook is a 1981 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, devoted to the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was reissued on CD in 1991, although the CD version does not include the songs "Don't Ever Go Away" and "Song of the Jet". Though it is subtitled as such, this album is not usually considered part of Fitzgerald's 'Songbook' series, the last of the 'Songbook' albums having been recorded in 1964. It was Fitzgerald's first album of music devoted to a single composer since 1972's Ella Loves Cole, and it was her only album recorded entirely in the Bossa Nova style, though she had been singing Jobim's songs since the mid-1960s. Fitzgerald never worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim, though she appeared alongside Frank Sinatra for a 1967 television special that also featured Jobim. The title has a pun, as Ela (with a single l) translates as "she". It can be translated as 'She Hugs Jobim' (Ela Abraça Jobim) or 'Ella Hugs Jobim".[/i][/center]

A Greek-only premium CD, released with the music magazine 'Jazz & Tzaz' (Issue 98) It's a sort of anthology, covering the first 10 years of Ella's career (1936-1946). Except the last track, which recorded in 1960. The sound is excellent! http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/3915/foldergj.jpg 01. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - Shine [2:55] 02. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - Rock It For Me [3:14] 03. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - You Won't Be Satisfied [2:53] 04. Ella Fitzgerald & The Song Spinners - I'm Confessin' [3:24] 05. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - Just A Simple Melody [3:00] 06. Ella Fitzgerald & The Delta Rythm Boys - For Sentimental Reasons [3:09] 07. Ella Fitzgerald & Mills Brothers - Dedicated To You [3:12] 08. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Frin Fram Sauce [3:13] 09. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - Hallelujah [4:03] 10. Ella Fitzgerald & Mills Brothers - Big Boy Blues [2:47] 11. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead In The Market [2:40] 12. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - I Want To Be Happy [4:30] 13. Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots - Cow Cow Boogie [2:54] 14. Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb - Chew Chew Chew [3:00] 15. Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon (Live) [8:03] Label: BMC/Protasis Released: 2001 Codec: Flac Compression Level: 6 Quality: High CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac) Covers Included (600dpi) Enjoy, Seed and Share

[image=3sQlf8D6wI] Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Cole Porter Song Book VBR Year 1956 Disc 1 1. All Through The Night 3:14 2. Anything Goes 3:20 3. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) 3:00 4. Too Darn Hot 3:47 5. In The Still Of The Night 2:38 6. I Get A Kick Out Of You 4:00 7. Do I Love You? 3:49 8. Always True To You In My Fashion 2:48 9. Let's Do It 3:32 10. Just One Of Those Things 3:30 11. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 3:32 12. All Of You 1:43 13. Begin The Beguine 3:36 14. Get Out Of Town 3:22 15. I Am In Love 4:05 16. From This Moment On 3:16 Disc 2 1. I Love Paris 4:57 2. You Do Something To Me 2:21 3. Ridin' High 3:20 4. Easy To Love 3:24 5. It's All Right With Me 3:07 6. Why Can't You Behave? 5:04 7. What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:02 8. You're The Top 3:32 9. Love For Sale 5:52 10. It's DeLovely 2:42 11. Night And Day 3:04 12. Ace In The Hole 1:58 13. So In Love 3:50 14. I've Got You Under My Skin 2:41 15. I Concentrate On You 3:11 3 16. Don't Fence Me In 3:19 17. You're The Top 2:07 18. I Concentrate On You 3:00 19. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 8:50 The late great Ella Fitzgerald had probably the best jazz voice ever put down on tape. This collection of Cole Porter songs was the first of the "Song Book" collection issued by Verve and was so successful that they followed it up with an Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart collections, though in my opinion the Porter song book is the best. The recordings were laid down in 1956, the year after Porter's final Broadway musical, Silk Stockings, opened. Ella recorded them with the Buddy Bregman orchestra at Capitol Studios, L.A. The one flaw (if it is a flaw) with this set is that almost all the songs are so commonly recorded that you find yourself comparing them to other artists. Unsurprisingly Ella's voice compares well, some of the orchestrations are, however, not quite up to later standards as those by such masters as Nelson Riddle. Don't mistake me, Buddy Bergman did a fine job for 1956 but at times the orchestration seems dated and at others tries a little too hard to keep up with Ella. The style of the tracks varies greatly, according to the mood of the song. Ella picks up the beat and syncopation in such masterpieces as "You're The Top" and slows and sexifies the voice in "I Love Paris" and "Love For Sale." Overall the collection has a mellow, jazzy feel that varies between romantic and downright sexy. If you are looking for a good collection to load into the CD player for a romantic dinner, a quiet night watching the lights on Sydney Harbour with a brandy in one hand or just appreciate the varied styles and depth of talent of Miss Ella Fitzgerald then it is hard to go past this two CD set.

[image=fJkhES1cFQ] Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book VBR Year 1957 Disc 1 1. Rockin' In Rhythm 5:19 2. Drop Me Off In Harlem 3:51 3. Day Dream 3:59 4. Caravan 3:54 5. Take The "A" Train 6:42 6. I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues 4:42 7. Clementine 2:39 8. I Didn't Know About You 4:13 9. I'm Beginning To See The Light 3:26 10. Lost In Meditation 3:28 11. Perdido 6:13 12. Cotton Tail 3:25 13. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 7:41 14. Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' 3:33 15. Solitude 2:07 16. Rocks In My Bed 3:57 17. Satin Doll 3:28 18. Sophisticated Lady 5:21 Disc 2 1. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 4:17 2. It Don't Mean A Thing 4:15 3. Azure 2:23 4. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 4:11 5. In A Sentimental Mood 2:47 6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 5:02 7. Prelude To A Kiss 5:29 8. Mood Indigo 3:28 9. In A Mellow Tone 5:12 10. Love You Madly 4:42 11. Lush Life 3:41 12. Squatty Roo 3:42 13. I'm Just A Lucky So And So 4:15 14. All Too Soon 4:24 15. Everything But You 2:57 16. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 6:15 17. Bli-Blip 3:03 Disc 3: 1 I'm Just a Lucky So and So 04:12 2 All Too Soon 04:22 3 Everything But You 02:53 4 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 06:11 5 Bli-Blip 03:01 6 Chelsea Bridge 03:20 7 Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Ancestry/All Heart/Beyond Category 16:10 8 The E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke) 04:48 1957: Ella Fitzgerald, jazz's best singer, records the songs of Duke Ellington, jazz's best composer. Duke and Ella never sound better. His orchestra is at its most elegant yet at its most swinging, her voice's is in its best form, so harmonically, rhythmically, and tonally sophisticated. Jazz's greatest event is happening. It is "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook," and it is too great to let pass you by. Alright, this is all true. With Duke's big band behind her, Ella was divine. She was even classier with his suberb small groups. Most of all, it showed both of their eclecticism. Duke was still overlapping rhythms, harmonies, tones, and different musical styles to their most mesmerizing effect. Ella was at her career peak at Verve Records. And for the record: Any of the songwriters she covered in the classic Songbook Series never sounded as awesome. She's the glue that provokes the Ellington Orchestra to outdo themselves once again. Their repertoire of jungle music, unique swing songs, lesser known songs, and more experimental songs is covered, and Ella fits these songs like a lace glove. Part of her incredible genius is her ability to adapt any type of music to her ebullient voice. (On the video of PBS's American Masters special about Ella, listen to her short takes on country and soul in a London Club. Dang!) In comparison to the rest of Ella's stellar career: "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook" is her peak. It is the centerpiece in her career's greatest period at Verve Records and the landmark Songbook Series. Of all of them, it's the most jazz-oriented. All of her Songbook albums are first-rate, yet this is the best. And it's also a taste of heaven, too good to let pass you by when you're alive. Get it now. And hey, Chick Webb's orchestra was one of swing's greatest bands, but what if she had spent a part of her career in Duke's orchestra? That might have been even better. And even she didn't, isn't this album more than enough?

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