Ella Fitzgerald - Three Classic Albums Plus (2CD,2014)
FLAC (tracks + .cue, log, scans) | 2:39:04 | 935 Mb
Genre: Vocal Jazz
FLAC (tracks + .cue, log, scans) | 2:39:04 | 935 Mb
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Ella was in danger of having almost exhausted all the great songs as the original liner notes worryingly allude to. “There are many outstanding songwriters, their reputations less glamorous than those of Porter, the Gershwin’s, Berlin, Rodgers & Hart and Duke Ellington, but who none the less produced many songs which slowly attained the status of standards. It is the work of these men that largely comprise the repertoire on these L.P’s.” Is she jazz or pop? Is that the question, should it be the question? Ella Fitzgerald is at home in either category. Here live “At the Opera House” with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Jo Jones she is singing popular standards with a jazz quartet! As noted in the original liner notes “she is one of the few people who can please two publics without condescending to either, yet despite her attachment to jazz since the pre-war days with Chick Webb, there are many who still consider