Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the July 2003 Issue of Stereophile!
It's something most everyone has experienced: whether at one of the great jazz festivals in Berlin, Montreux or Paris, or in a small, provincial jazz club which exudes the charm of a dingy jazz cavern in the Fifties - you sit, listen, and then rack your brain to remember the name of the number which the young jazz musician is playing with all his heart. Just what was the name? Put the Ella Sings The Rodgers And Hart Songbook album on your turntable and you're guaranteed to recall "My Funny Valentine," "Blue Moon" and "It Never Entered My Mind." All these and many more excellent ballads flowed out of the pens of the songwriting team. But don't make the mistake of associating merely scat singing taken at a cracking pace with the most famous and the BEST jazz vocalist between 1930 and 1995. This album more than demonstrates Ella Fitzgerald's excellent powers of expression and her brilliant modulations. What is more, there is a special treat for us in store on this album: three titles are now appearing on stereo-LP for the very first time. Grab this one before it's out of print. It's a guaranteed winner.
Selections:
1. A Ship Without Sail
2. Bewitched
3. Blue Moon
4. Dancing On The Ceiling
5. Give It Back To The Indians
6. Have You Met Miss Jones?
7. I Could Write A Book
8. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
9. Isn't It Romantic
10. I Wish I Were In Love Again
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Johnny One Note
13. Little Girl Blue
14. Lover
15. Manhatten
16. Mountain Greenery
17. My Funny Valentine
18. My Romance
19. Spring Is Here
20. Ten Cents A Dance
21. The Lady Is A Tramp
22. There's A Small Hotel
23. This Can't Be Love
24. Thou Swell
25. Wait Till You See Her
26. Where Or When
27. You Took Advantage Of Me
It's something most everyone has experienced: whether at one of the great jazz festivals in Berlin, Montreux or Paris, or in a small, provincial jazz club which exudes the charm of a dingy jazz cavern in the Fifties - you sit, listen, and then rack your brain to remember the name of the number which the young jazz musician is playing with all his heart. Just what was the name? Put the Ella Sings The Rodgers And Hart Songbook album on your turntable and you're guaranteed to recall "My Funny Valentine," "Blue Moon" and "It Never Entered My Mind." All these and many more excellent ballads flowed out of the pens of the songwriting team. But don't make the mistake of associating merely scat singing taken at a cracking pace with the most famous and the BEST jazz vocalist between 1930 and 1995. This album more than demonstrates Ella Fitzgerald's excellent powers of expression and her brilliant modulations. What is more, there is a special treat for us in store on this album: three titles are now appearing on stereo-LP for the very first time. Grab this one before it's out of print. It's a guaranteed winner.
Selections:
1. A Ship Without Sail
2. Bewitched
3. Blue Moon
4. Dancing On The Ceiling
5. Give It Back To The Indians
6. Have You Met Miss Jones?
7. I Could Write A Book
8. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
9. Isn't It Romantic
10. I Wish I Were In Love Again
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Johnny One Note
13. Little Girl Blue
14. Lover
15. Manhatten
16. Mountain Greenery
17. My Funny Valentine
18. My Romance
19. Spring Is Here
20. Ten Cents A Dance
21. The Lady Is A Tramp
22. There's A Small Hotel
23. This Can't Be Love
24. Thou Swell
25. Wait Till You See Her
26. Where Or When
27. You Took Advantage Of Me
