PROPER CD EMCD-03: Ella Fitzgerald - Essential Masters of Jazz

Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!****Shipping cost is only an estimate - it depends on the actual weight and size of the package as well as the service required. We do not profit from shipping costs, so if we overcharge, we will refund the difference back to you. We will combine shipping for multiple items purchased.Background -Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After tumultuous teenage years, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country, but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Fitzgerald's rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. Taking over the band after Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start a solo career that would last effectively the rest of her life. Signed with manager and Savoy co-founder Moe Gale from early in her career, she eventually gave managerial control for her performance and recording career to Norman Granz, who built up the label Verve Records based in part on Fitzgerald's vocal abilities. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretation of the Great American Songbook. While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced recognizable songs like "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, Fitzgerald capped off her fifty-nine year career with her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79, following years of decline in her health. After her passing, Fitzgerald's influence lived on through her fourteen Grammy Awards, National Medal of Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and tributes in the form of stamps, music festivals, and theater namesakes. Given the sheer scale of Ella Fitzgerald's career, no definitive compilation is possible, but the 77 minutes featured on this release are, as the title has it, "essential". In 1956 Ella moved to Verve, and her album The Cole Porter Songbook was her first release for the label. It was such a success that for the next eight years Fitzgerald recorded a definitive series of songbooks, creating in the process a unique chronicle of the finest melodies of not only Cole Porter, but of Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and others. It is from those great albums that this anthology has been compiled, and with such a treasure-trove of American song to chose from, every selection is a superbly performed classic. Fitzgerald can be warm and tender, sardonic and blue, but is always a dazzlingly "sophisticated lady" (a track which actually appears on Verve's lavish For The Love Of Ella Fitzgerald double-set). Whether swinging or lamenting, and with every detail of the original tapes brought to life via exceptional remastering, Ella is in fine voice backed by impeccable arrangements. It is indeed, "'s wonderful" and the only response is to be "bewitched". - Gary S. Dalkin This listing is for a rare CD title - a USED / OPENED, in Near Mint minus overall condition CD PRESSED and ISSUED by PROPER Records of a highly collectible title, featuring - Ella FitzgeraldCD Title - Ella Fitzgerald - Essential Masters of JazzTrack Listing -1. Flying Home 2. Sugar Blues 3. I'm Justa Lucky So And So 4. You 'll Have To Swing It 5. Oh, Lady Be Good 6. You Won'T Be Satisfied 7. Cow Cow Boogie 8. Jim 9. A-Tisket, A-Tisket 10. I'm Beginning To See The Light 11. Mama, Come Home 12. Moon Ray 13. How High The Moon 14. Petootie Pie 15. Undecided 16. Cry You Out Of My Heart 17. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall 18. The Frim Fram Sauce 19. Sentimental Journey 20. My Baby Likes To Bebop Performers on this CD include - • Ella FitzgeraldThis CD is from the PROPER series of CDs. CD catalog # EMCD 03CD made in the UK / England CD issued in 1998 The CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all in near mint minus overall condition! The CD may have a light mark or two on the reflective side of the disc - we couldn't see any serious marks under strong, white light. We play tested the disc in our audio system and it performed perfectly. This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system). Do not let this rarity slip by!

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Location: New York, New York

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