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1957 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
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Studio album by

Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1957
Recorded June 25 - October 17, 1957
Genre Jazz
Length 166:32
Label Verve MGV 4008-2 (Book one) and MGV 4009-2 (Book 2)
Producer Norman Granz
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(1957) 		Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
(1957) 		Ella and Her Fellas
(1957)
Knuckles Ellington chronology
All Star Road Band
(1957) 		Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington Vocal Book
(1957) 		Ellington Indigos
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [2]

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Knuckles Ellington Song Volume is a 1957 studio anthology by the American jazz vocaliser Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied past Duke Ellington and his orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs.

Role of Fitzgerald'southward "Vocal Book" series, it is the just one where the composer is also featured as a performer and the commencement occasion Fitzgerald recorded with Ellington. Information technology is also the entry in the Song Book serial that provided her with the most opportunities to exhibit her skill at scat singing.

The greater office of disc three is devoted to two original compositions by Billy Strayhorn, inspired by Fitzgerald'south life, character, and artistry. Fitzgerald'south performance on this album won her the Grammy Accolade for All-time Jazz Performance, Private, at the 1st Almanac Grammy Awards.[5]

The album was released in 2 volumes: The first volume comprised Fitzgerald with the Ellington orchestra, the 2d of Fitzgerald with a small group setting.

This album marked the start of a fruitful artistic relationship for Fitzgerald and Ellington. The 1960s would meet them perform on the Côte d'Azur for the album Ella and Knuckles at the Cote D'Azur (1966), and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966. Their just other studio album is Ella at Knuckles's Place (1965).

Track listing [edit]

For the 1957 Verve 4-LP prepare: Verve MGV 4010-4

Disc one

  1. "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – five:17
  2. "Driblet Me Off in Harlem" (Nick Kenny) – 3:48
  3. "Twenty-four hour period Dream" (John La Touche, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:56
  4. "Caravan" (Ellington, Mills, Juan Tizol) – iii:51
  5. "Take the "A" Railroad train" (Strayhorn) – 6:37
  6. "I Own't Got Nothin' Just the Blues" (Ellington, Don George) – iv:39
  7. "Clementine" (Strayhorn) – 2:37
  8. "I Didn't Know Nigh You" (Bob Russell) – 4:ten
  9. "I'yard Beginning to Encounter the Light" (Ellington, George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 3:24
  10. "Lost in Meditation" (Mills, Lou Vocalist, Tizol) – three:24
  11. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Tizol) – half-dozen:10
  12. "Cotton fiber Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 3:23
  13. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Russell) – 7:38
  14. "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" (Lee Gaines, Strayhorn) – 3:30
  15. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Knuckles Ellington, Irving Mills) – 2:04
  16. "Rocks in My Bed" – 3:56
  17. "Satin Doll" (Johnny Mercer, Strayhorn) – iii:26
  18. "Sophisticated Lady" (Mitchell Parish) – 5:18

Disc ii

  1. "Just Squeeze Me (Just Please Don't Tease Me)" (Gaines) – 4:thirteen
  2. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If Information technology Ain't Got That Swing)" (Ellington, Mills) – iv:12
  3. "Azure" (Mills) – 2:18
  4. "I Let a Vocal Go Out of My Heart" (Mills, Henry Nemo, John Redmond) – iv:08
  5. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Manny Kurtz, Mills) – 2:44
  6. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Russell) – iv:59
  7. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Irving Gordon, Mills) – 5:26
  8. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Mills) – iii:24
  9. "In a Mellow Tone" (Milt Gabler) – 5:07
  10. "Love You Madly" – four:37
  11. "Lush Life" (Strayhorn) – 3:37
  12. "Squatty Roo" (Hodges) – 3:38
  13. "I'm Only a Lucky So-and-And then" (Mack David) – 4:12
  14. "All Too Soon" (Carl Sigman) – four:22
  15. "Everything But You" (George, James) – two:53
  16. "I Got it Bad (And That Own't Skilful)" (Paul Francis Webster) – half-dozen:11
  17. "Bli-Blip" (Sid Kuller) – 3:01

Disc three

  1. "Chelsea Bridge" (Strayhorn) – three:20
  2. "Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald" (Strayhorn) – 16:10
    • First Movement: "Royal Ancestry"
    • 2nd Move: "All Heart"
    • Third Movement: "Across Category"
    • Fourth Movement: "Full Jazz"
  3. "The E and D Blues" (Eastward for Ella, D for Duke) (Strayhorn) – iv:48

Bonus Tracks; Issued on the Verve 1999 3CD re-issue, Verve 314 559 248-2

  2. "Chelsea Span – rehearsal" – iv:03
  3. "Chelsea Bridge – rehearsal" – 3:37
  4. "Chelsea Bridge – rehearsal" – 3:59
  5. "Chelsea Span – rehearsal" – 3:xx
  6. "Chelsea Span – rehearsal" – 1:38
  7. "Chelsea Bridge – rehearsal" – 1:20
  8. "Chelsea Bridge – rehearsal" – five:35
  9. "Chelsea Bridge – rehearsal" – 3:39
  10. "All Heart – rehearsal" – 3:54
  11. "All Heart – alternative take I" – three:33
  12. "All Heart – alternative take 2" – 3:22
  13. "All Center – culling take III" – 3:25

Recorded June 15–October 27, 1957, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Personnel [edit]

  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
  • William "Cat" Anderson, Clark Terry, Willie Cook – trumpet
  • Giddy Gillespie – trumpet on "Have the "A" Train"[six] [7]
  • Frank Foster – tenor saxophone
  • Paul Gonsalves, Ben Webster – saxophone
  • Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
  • Russell Procope – clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Harry Carney – clarinet, bass clarinet
  • John Sanders, Britt Woodman, Quentin Jackson – trombone
  • Ray Nance – trumpet, violin
  • Stuff Smith – violin
  • Oscar Peterson, Paul Smith – pianoforte
  • Ray Brown, Joe Mondragon, Jimmy Woode – double bass
  • Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel – guitar
  • Sam Woodyard, Alvin Stoller – drums
  • Billy Strayhorn – piano, narrator
  • Duke Ellington – piano, narrator, arranger, conductor

References [edit]

  1. ^ Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book at AllMusic
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN0-394-72643-10.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0195313734.
  4. ^ Melt, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 490. ISBN978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ "1958 Grammy Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 21 Baronial 2016.
  6. ^ Ken Vail (1999). Knuckles's Diary. Scarecrow Press. p. 108. ISBN978-0-8108-4119-2.
  7. ^ J. Wilfred Johnson (5 Baronial 2010). Ella Fitzgerald: An Annotated Discography; Including a Consummate Discography of Chick Webb. McFarland. p. 65. ISBN978-0-7864-5039-8.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald_Sings_the_Duke_Ellington_Song_Book

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