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Ella Fitzgerald ‎- Something To Live For (1999)

Исполнитель: Ella Fitzgerald
Название альбома: Something To Live For
Год выпуска: 1999
Формат файлов: mp3, 320 kbps
Размер архива: 193.40 mb
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Ella Fitzgerald recorded so much, and so much of what she recorded was so good, that the notion of one album summing her up is all but ludicrous. That said, this two-disc set, a companion to a television documentary by the same title, comes the closest of any album so far. It is the first album to span the two most important eras of her recordings, the Decca years, 1935-1955, and the Verve years, 1956-1966. The eight Decca performances include Fitzgerald's first big hit, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"; the 1947 scat masterpiece "How High the Moon"; and a selection from the voice-and-piano album Ella Sings Gershwin, "But Not for Me," which foreshadowed the singer's songbook albums of the late '50s and '60s. The Verve recordings get their official start with the appropriate inclusion of "Ridin' High" from 1956's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book, one of five selections from the celebrated songbook albums. The rest of the choices are gems from Fitzgerald's career, including some stunning scat features, notably a version of "Airmail Special" from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. The memorable 1960 Berlin performance of "Mack the Knife," with its improvised lyrics, is included, as is a live 1962 recording of "Bill Bailey" which finds this uncanny mimic doing impressions of Della Reese and Pearl Bailey. The uptempo material is offset with some wonderful ballads, among them a version of "Angel Eyes" with only Barney Kessel providing a guitar ac-companiment. Fitzgerald fans could cite dozens (if not hundreds) of other stellar performances, many of them from after the 1966 cut-off point of this album, but this is the first time such a long period of Fitzgerald's career has been captured on a single album. Many of the recordings that nearly all fans would agree rank among her best are here.

disc one:
1. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
2. You Showed Me the Way
3. Stairway to the Stars
4. How High the Moon
5. Perdido
6. Can Anyone Explain?
7. Ella’s Contribution to the Blues
8. But Not For Me
9. Thanks for the Memory
10. Ridin’ High
11. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
12. Angel Eyes
13. Goody, Goody
14. Oh, Lady Be Good!

disc two:
1. The Lady Is a Tramp
2. Body and Soul
3. Airmail Special
4. Midnight Sun
5. Summertime
6. Mack the Knife
7. Misty
8. The Man I Love
9. (You’ll Have To Swing It) Mr. Paganini
10. ’Round Midnight
11. Bill Bailey
12. Yesterdays
13. Lover Man
14. Duke’s Place
15. Sweet Georgia Brown
16. Something To Live For

Record Label: Verve Music Group

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24 июня 2014, macaralex