In 1956 Jazz impressario Norman Granz, who had started the legendary „Jazz at The Philharmonic“ concerts and tours in 1944, signed Ella Fitzgerald to his new Verve label, which combined his earlier labels Clef and Norgran. Having been Ella´s personal manager for years – a role he maintained for the rest of her career – he had a vision to make her the most popular and prolific jazz singer of all times. Between 1956 and 1962 he recorded 7 songbooks each containing between 2 to 5 volumes and the incredible duets with Louis Armstrong – an impressive body of work, almost impossible to imagine to be created in such a short period of time today. To demonstrate that Granz was building on a good foundation, we also include some highlights of her Decca recordings, such as her intimate duo-sessions with pianist Ellis Larkins.
Tracklist
CD1
Like Someone In Love
1. There’s A Lull In My Life (Gordon/Revel)
2. More Than You Know (Youmans/Eliscu/Rose)
3. What Will I Tell My Heart (Tinturin/Lawrence)
4. I Never Had A Chance (I. Berlin)
5. Close Your Eyes (B. Petkere)
6. We’ll Be Together Again (Fisher/Laine)
7. Then I’ll Be Tired Of You (Schwartz/Harburg)
8. Like Someone In Love (Burke/Van Heusen)
9. Midnight Sun (Hampton/Burke)
10. I Thought About You (Mercer/Van Heusen)
11. You’re Blase (Hamilton/Sivier)
12. Night Wind ( Rothberg/Pollock)
13. What’s New (Haggart/Burke)
14. Hurry Home (Meyer/Emmerick/Bernier)
15. How Long Has This Been Going On (G. & I. Gershwin)
CD2
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Porgy &
Bess
1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. I Wants To Stay Here
4. My Man’s Gone Now
5. I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
6. Buzzard Song
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. It Ain’t Necessarily So
9. What You Want Wid Bess?
10. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
11. Oh, Doctor Jesus
12. Medley: Here Come De Honey Man - Crab Man -
Oh, Dey’s So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)
13. There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York
14. Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
15. Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way
CD3
Sweet Songs For Swingers
1. Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim/Lamare/Tobias)
2. Let’s Fall In Love (Koehler/Arlen)
3. Makin’ Whoopee (Donaldsen/Kahn)
4. That Old Feeling (Brown/Fain)
5. I Remember You (Schertzinger/Mercer)
6. Moonlight Serenade (Miller/Parish)
7. Gone With The Wind (Magidsen/Wrubel)
8. Can’t We Be Friends (James/Swift)
9. Out Of This World (Arlen/Mercer)
10. My Old Flame (Johnston/Ceslow)
11. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) (Bowman)
12. Lullaby Of Broadway Warren/Dubin)
Mack The Knife – Ella In Berlin
13. Gone With The Wind (Wrubel/Magidson)
14. Misty (Garner/Burke)
15. The Lady Is A Tramp (Rodgers/Hart)
16. The Man I Love (G. And I.Gershwin)
17. Summertime (Heyward/Gershwin)
18. Too Darn Hot (C. Porter)
19. Lorelei (G. And I.Gershwin)
20. Mack The Knife (Brecht/Weill/Blitzstein)
21. How High The Moon (Lewis/Hamilton)
CD4
Hello Love
1. You Go To My Head (Coots/Gillespie)
2. Willow Weep For Me (A. Ronell)
3. I’m Thru’ With Love (Kahn/Malneck/Livingstone)
4. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year (F. Loesser)
5. Everything Happens To Me (Dennis/Adair)
6. Lost In A Fog (Fields/McHugh)
7. I’ve Grown Accustomed To His Face (Loewe/Lerner)
8. I’ll Never Be The Same (Malneck/Signorelli)
9. So Rare (Herst/Sharpe)
10. Tenderly (Gross/Lawrence)
11. Stairway To The Stars (Malneck/Signorelli)
12. Moonlight In Vermont (Blackburn/Suessdorf)
Get Happy !
13. Somebody Loves Me (MacDonald/DeSylva/Gershwin/Gershowitz)
14. Cheerful Little Earful (Rose/Warren/Guaragna/Gershwin/Gershowitz)
15. You Make Me Feel So Young (Myrow/Gordon)
16. Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar (Raye/Sheehy/Prince)
17. Like Young (Previn/Webster)
18. Cool Breeze (Eckstine/Gillespie/Dameron)
19. Moonlight Becomes You (Van Heusen/Babcock/Burke)
20. Blue Skies (Berlin/Beilin)
21. You Turned The Tables On Me (Alter/Mitchell)
22. Gypsy In My Soul (Boland,/Jaffe)
23. Goody-Goody (Mercer/Malneck)
24. St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy)
CD5
Ella Swings Lightly
1. Little White Lies (W. Donaldson) 2:32
2. You Hit The Spot (Revel/Gordon) 2:44
3. What’s Your Story, Morning Glory (Lawrence /Williams/Webster) 2:39
4. Just You Just Me (Greer/Klages) 2:20
5. As Long As I Live (Arlen/Koehler) 2:48
6. Teardrops From My Eyes (R. Toombs) 3:49
7. Gotta Be This Or That (S. Skylar) 3:06
8. Moonlight On The Ganges (Wallace/Myers) 2:23
9. My Kinda Love (Trent/Alter) 3:42
10. Blues In The Night (Arlen/Mercer) 3:40
11. If I Were A Bell (F. Loesser) 2:34
12. You’re An Old Softie (DeSylva/Brown/Whiting) 2:45
13. Little Jazz (Harding/Eldridge) 3:04
14. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (Kahal/Norman/Fain) 2:19
15. Knock Me A Kiss (Razaf/Jackson) 4:07
16. 720 In The Books (Adamson/Savit/Watson) 2:53
CD6
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie !
1. Night In Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli)
2. You’re My Thrill (Gorney/Clare)
3. My Reverie (Debussy/Clinton)
4. Stella By Starlight (Washington/Young)
5. ’Round Midnite (Hanighen/Williams/Monk)
6. Jersey Bounce (Plater/Feyne/Johnson/Bradshaw)
7. Signing Off (Campbell/Connelly)
8. Cry Me A River (A. Hamilton)
9. This Year’s Kisses (I. Berlin)
10. Good Morning Heartache (Fisher/Drake/Higginbotham)
11. (I Was) Born To Be Blue (Tormé/Wells)
12. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (MacDonald/Rose/Meyer)
13. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Landesman/Wolf)
14. Music Goes ’Round And ’Round (Farley/Riley/Hodgson)
Ella Sings Gershwin
15. Someone to Watch Over Me (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
16. My One and Only (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
17. But Not for Me (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
18. Looking For a Boy (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
19. I’ve Got a Crush on You (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
20. How Long Has This Been Going On? (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
21. Maybe (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
22. Soon (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
CD7
Ella In Hollywood
1. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (Allen)
2. I’ve Got The World On A String (Koehler/Arlen)
3. You’re Driving Me Crazy (W.Donaldson)
4. Just In Time (Green/Styne)
5. It Might As Well Be Spring (Hammerstein II/Rodgers)
6. Take The „A“ Train (B.Strayhorn)
7. Stairway To The Stars (Parish/Malneck/Signorelli)
8. You’ll Have To Swing It Mr. Paganini (Coslow)
9. Satin Doll (Strayhorn/Ellington)
10. Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart)
11. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home (Williams)
12. Air Mail Special (Goodman/Mundy/Christian)
CD8
Ella Swings Brightly With NELSON
1. When Your Lover Has Gone (E.Swan)
2. Don’t Be That Way (Goodman/Parish/Sampson)
3. Love Me or Leave Me (Donaldson/Kahn)
4. Hear Music (Lane/Loesser)
5. What Am I Here For ? (Ellington/Laine)
6. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’“ (Ellington/Lee)
7. I Won’t Dance (Fields/Hammerstein II/Harbach/Kern/McHugh)
8. Only Have Eyes for You (Dubin/Warren)
9. The Gentleman is a Dope (Hammerstein/Rodgers)
10. Mean to Me (Ahlert, Roy Turk)
11. Alone Together (Dietz/Schwartz)
12. Pick Yourself Up (Fields/ Kern)
Rhythm Is My Business
1. Rough Ridin (Fitzgerald/Jones/Tennyson)
2. Broadway (Bird/McRae/Woode)
3. You Can Depend On Me (Carpenter/Dunlap/Hines)
4. Runnin’ Wild (Gibbs/Grey/Wood)
5. Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World‚
Cause That’s Where Everything Is (Clark/Dennis)
6. I’ll Always Be In Love With You (Green/Ruby/Stept)
7. Hallelujah, I Love Him So (R. Charles)
8. I Can’t Face the Music (Bloom/Koehler)
9. No Moon At All (Evans/Mann)
10. Laughin’ on the Outside (Raleigh/Wayne)
11. After You’ve Gone (Creamer/Layton)
CD9
Ella Swings Gently
1. Sweet and Slow (Dubin/Warren)
2. Georgia On My Mind (Carmichael/Gorrell)
3. Can’t Get Started(Duke/I. Gershwin)
4. Street of Dreams (Lewis/Young)
5. Imagination (Burke/Van Heusen)
6. The Very Thought of You (R. Noble)
7. It’s a Blue World (Forrest/Wright)
8. Darn That Dream (DeLang/Van Heusen)
9. He’s Funny That Way (Moret/Whiting)
10. I Wished on the Moon (Parker/Rainger)
11. It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight (Gordon/Reid)
12. My One and Only Love (Mellin/Wood)
13. Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Edward/Heyman/Sour)
Songs In A Mellow Mood
14. I’m Glad There Is You (Dorsey/Mertz)
15. What Is There to Say? (Duke/Harburg)
16. People Will Say We’re in Love (Hammerstein II/Rodgers)
17. Please Be Kind (Cahn/Chaplin)
18. Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Cahn/Chaplin/Freeman/Holiner/Nichols)
19. Makin’ Whoopee (Donaldson/Kahn)
20. Imagination(Burke/Van Heusen)
21. Stardust (Carmichael/Parish)
CD10
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man
Write My Epitaph
1. Black Coffee (Burke/Webster)
2. Angel Eyes (Brent/Dennis)
3. I Cried for You (Arnheim/Freed/Lyman)
4. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (Fields/McHugh)
5. Then You’ve Never Been Blue (Rito/Lewis/Langford/Young)
6. Hadn’t Anyone Till You (R. Noble)
7. My Melancholy Baby (Burnett/Norton)
8. Misty (Burke/Garner)
9. September Song (Anderson/Weill)
10. One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (Arlen/Mercer)
11. Who’s Sorry Now? (Kalmar/Ruby/Snyder)
12. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You(Bassman/Washington)
13. Reach for Tomorrow (McHugh/Washington)
Sweet And Hot
14. Thanks for the Memory (Rainger/Robin)
15. It Might as Well Be Spring (Rodgers/Hammerstein II)
16. You’ll Never Know (Warren/Gordon)
17. I Can’t Get Started (Duke/I. Gershwin)
18. Moanin’ Low (Rainger/Dietz)
19. Taking a Chance on Love (Duke/Latouche/Fetter)
20. That Old Black Magic (Arlen/Mercer)
21. Old Devil Moon (Harburg/Lane)
22. Lover, Come Back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein II)
23. Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Arlen/Koehler)
24. (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) (S. Coslow)
22. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (C. Porter)
23. You Leave Me Breathless (Freed/Hollaender)
24. Baby, What Else Can I Do? (Hirsch/Marks)
25. Nice Work If You Can Get It (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)
Details
Genre: Jazz
Set content: 10
EAN: 4053796003331