Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
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Artist: Ella FitzgeraldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Blues In The Night
- Let's Fall In Love
- Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- My Shining Hour
- Hooray For Love
- This Time The Dream's On Me
- That Old Black Magic
- I've Got The World On A String
- Let's Take A Walk Around The Block
- III Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
- When The Sun Comes Out
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- As Long As I Live
- Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
- It's Only A Paper Moon
- The Man That Got Away
- One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
- It Was Written In The Stars
- Get Happy
- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
- Out Of This World
- Over The Rainbow
- Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
- Sing My Heart
- Let's Take A Walk Around The Block (Alternate Take)
- Sing My Heart (Alternate Take)
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Free Music Review: Ding! Dong! This Ella book is swell !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Ella Fitzgerald possessed the unique talent to be able to record so many extensive songbooks and always come out smelling like a rose. Her voice is in excellent form throughout this two CD set; and she emotes so very well all the feelings that Harold Arlen could ever have dreamed for his timeless music.
While people know Ella Fitzgerald, not everyone knows that Harold Arlen wrote the music for such wonderful classic songs as "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road);" "It's Only A Paper Moon;" "I've Got The World On A String;" "Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time);" and the timeless "Over The Rainbow." Ella does great justice to Arlen's work by throwing herself completely into each tune; and the musical accompaniments by Billy May are brilliantly produced. Billy May did a wonderful job with the musical arrangements on this two CD set.
This two CD songbook also demonstrates so clearly how well Arlen could write for a very diverse myriad of songs. The music is beautiful for the hopeful "Over The Rainbow;" joyous for "Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe;" and "Get Happy;" bluesy for "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" and sorrowful for the torch ballad "The Man That Got Away."
The two CD set boasts beautiful pictures of both Ella and Billy May; an extensive essay by Doug Ramsey; the original liner notes for the record albums by Benny Green; and plenty of information about the life and times of Harold Arlen. Terrific!
Overall, I highly recommend this two CD set for fans of classic vocals, fans of Ella Fitzgerald and Harold Arlen, and fans of Billy May. The Ella Fitzgerald rendition of the Harold Arlen songbook does justice to Arlen's great work as well as Ella's incomparable talent.
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Recorded in 1960 and '61, this is one of the last and very best of Fitzgerald's songbooks spotlighting individual composers. Arlen's lyrical songs, filled with bluesy touches and abstractions from the blues form, are perfect jazz fodder (he wrote for Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, circa 1930), and beautiful tunes in their own right. Fitzgerald is in peak voice; she's attentive to the nuances of soulful lyrics (Ira Gershwin's "The Man That Got Away"), and lightly teases some witty ones (like Johnny Mercer's "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive"). Billy May's big-band arrangements are models of self-effacing fleetness--punchy without hysteria, smooth without syrup--and enlivened by alto saxophonist Benny Carter and trumpeter Don Fagerquist. But May also brings a delicate sensibility to introductory verses, interludes, and tender ballads. Strings on a few tracks are for variety, not window-dressing. Arlen's graceful American art songs have never had a better showcase--even if they could have skipped "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead." --Kevin WhiteheadJazz Music CDs
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