The Best Of The Concert Years by Ella Fitzgerald

Description: Tracks:Night And DayLittle White LiesBody And SoulWhy Don't You Do RightOh Lady Be GoodI Got It Bad And That Ain't GoodHow High The MoonMy Funny ValentineIt's Only A Paper MoonDay DreamIf I Could Be With YouBetween The Devil And The Deep Blue SeaWillow Weep For MeAll Of MeBlue MoonThey Can't Take That Away From Me'Round Midnight Performer Notes: Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Paul Smith, Raymond Tunia, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Jones (piano); Herb Ellis (guitar); Bob Cranshaw, Keter Bates, Ray Brown (bass); Sam Woodyard, Bobby Durham, Ed Thigpen, J.C. Heard (drums).Recorded live at Nichigeki Theatre, Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California; Carnegie Hall, New York, New York between 1953 & 1983. Includes liner notes by Andrew Velez.Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Herb Ellis (guitar); Ray Tunia, Jimmy Jones , Paul Smith , Tommy Flanagan (piano); Ed Thigpen, J.C. Heard , Sam Woodyard, Bobby Durham (drums).Audio Remasterer: Kirk Felton.Liner Note Author: Andrew Velez.Recording information: New York, NY (11/18/1953-10/17/1983); Santa Monica, CA (11/18/1953-10/17/1983); Tokyo, Japan (11/18/1953-10/17/1983).Here is an intelligently sequenced compilation covering recordings that the great jazz singer made over a 30-year span for Norman Granz. Instead of the expected hodgepodge of tracks frantically jumping around from one concert to another, Pablo's Fantasy custodians wrap up things in four extended sequences, one from each decade. First are a pair of numbers in the acoustically suspect Santa Monica Civic Auditorium circa 1972 ("Night and Day," "Little White Lies"), where Fitzgerald has a wobble in her voice but never stops swinging for a second with the Tommy Flanagan Trio. Then it doubles back to a JATP gig in Tokyo in 1953, and a younger, smoother, almost bel canto Fitzgerald -- then still under contract to pop-minded Decca -- emerges in "Body and Soul" and "My Funny Valentine." But the swinging, joyful Fitzgerald isn't far away in "Why Don't You Do Right?" and the virtuosic scat display on "Oh Lady, Be Good" (she even does a deadly accurate impression of humming bassist Slam Stewart). With the Jimmy Jones Trio -- anchored by Duke Ellington's unstoppably swinging drummer Sam Woodyard -- Fitzgerald visits Carnegie Hall in 1967, skipping playfully through "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," while a moody vocalise treatment of Billy Strayhorn's "Day Dream" wipes everyone out. Finally it's Fitzgerald back in Tokyo in 1983 with her regular Paul Smith Trio and what a difference 30 years makes; the voice is deeper, less flexible, and fraying at the end of phrases. Unaltered, though, is the sheer joy of singing that is sensed in an exuberantly scatted "All of Me." As a single-disc summary of Fitzgerald's work fronting intimate chamber groups in concert, this is a good bet. ~ Richard S. Ginell Producer: Norman Granz Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo Country: USA Studio/Live: Live Guest Artist: Tommy Flanagan; Ray Brown; Herb Ellis Release Date: 17 July, 2003 Label: CONCORD Dimensions: 14.6 x 1.1 x 12.7 centimeters (0.06 kg)

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