Ella Fitzgerald "Songs In a Mellow Mood" LP LAT 8056 VG+ (UK) Flipback
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Ella Fitzgerald "Songs In a Mellow Mood" LP Brunswick LAT 8056 (UK)
Vinyl is VG+, Jacket is VG+!
Original!
Flipback Jacket
Track Listing:
A1 I'm Glad There Is You (In This World Of Ordinary People) Written-By – Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira*A2 What Is There To Say? Written-By – E.Y. Harburg, Duke*
A3 People Will Say We're In Love Written-By – R. Rodgers, O. Hammerstein II*
A4 Please Be Kind Written-By – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
A5 Until The Real Thing Comes Along Written-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
A6 Makin' Whoopee! Written-By – G. Kahn*, W. Donaldson*
B1 Imagination Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke*
B2 Star Dust Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
B3 My Heart Belongs To Daddy Written-By – Cole Porter
B4 You Leave Me Breathless Written-By – Arthur Freed, F. Hollander*
B5 Baby, What Else Can I Do? Written-By – Marks*, Hirsch*
B6 Nice Work If You Can Get It Written-By – G. Gerswhin, I. Gershwin*
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D?3 to D?6). Often referred to as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz," 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. 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.
Decca years
Fitzgerald performing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Timme Rosenkrantz in September 1947, New YorkIn 1942, Fitzgerald left the band to begin a solo career. Now signed to the Decca label, she had several popular hits while recording with such artists as Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and The Delta Rhythm Boys.
With Decca's Milt Gabler as her manager, she began working regularly for the jazz impresario Norman Granz and appeared regularly in his Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concerts. Fitzgerald's relationship with Granz was further cemented when he became her manager, although it would be nearly a decade before he could record her on one of his many record labels.
With the demise of the Swing era and the decline of the great touring big bands, a major change in jazz music occurred. The advent of bebop led to new developments in Fitzgerald's vocal style, influenced by her work with Dizzy Gillespie's big band. It was in this period that Fitzgerald started including scat singing as a major part of her performance repertoire. While singing with Gillespie, Fitzgerald recalled, "I just tried to do [with my voice] what I heard the horns in the band doing."
Her 1945 scat recording of "Flying Home" arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as "one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade....Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness."[1] Her bebop recording of "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (1947) was similarly popular and increased her reputation as one of the leading jazz vocalists.
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