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Digital III At Montreux with Basie & Pass (2308 223).

Take Love Easy with Joe Pass(231 0702-2).

>A Perfect Match with Count Basie (2312 110-2).

Nice Work if You Can Get It with Andre Previn (2312 140-2).Dream Dancing with Nelson Riddle (2310 814-2).A Classy Pair with Count Basie (231 132-2).Pablo (currently available from Fantasy Records): (Easily the most recommended release of this entire period.) Also features the reunions ofīoth the Chick Webb Orchestra and the Jazz at the Phil all-stars, as wellĪs Ella's splendiferous final team-up with the great Ellis Larkins. Japan (CBS/Sony 50DP-565/566), and, most recently and most satisfyingly asĪ double from American Columbia (C2K 66809). Single discs from CBS France (466 547-2 & 466 548-2) or one double set from Reprise has both Things Ain't What They Used To Be on one discĪnd Columbia's two-volume Live at Carnegie Hall, 1973 was available on two Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (Capitol/EMI 94452).The Gospel collection (almost as lame an idea as Ella doing Bessie Smith-style blues).The Best Of The Songbooks The Ballads (521 867)Īt one point Capitol had all of their bafflingly undistinguished Ella.The Essential Ella Fitzgerald The Great Songs (517 170 +).One-CD sampler of highlights from this three-CD sampler, if you're not Start with First Lady Of Song (Verve 517 898, 3 Cds), as a basic, 75thīirthday sampler of the entire Ella-Norman Granz experience (there's also a The Intimate Ella (originally released as Let No Man Write My Epitath, (839 838-2).Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (835 646-2 +).Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (827 150-2).Ella Swings Lightly (847 392) with Marty Paich.Ella Swings Gently With Nelson (519 348) - Riddle, that is!.

Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson (519 347) and.Porgy and Bess with Louis Armstrong (once two LPs, now one CD, 827 475-2).Ella and Louis (Armstrong, that is, 825 373-2).Ella & Basie (Count, of course, 821 576-2).Los Angeles 1966 (Status DSTS 1013, UK) and The Stockholm Concert (Pablo The Complete Ella In Berlin Mack The Knife (519 564) and Ella at Juan-Les Pins with nine bonus cuts (Japanese Polydor POCJ-1925).Ĭoncerts from the Verve years issued by companies other than Verve:Įlla Fitzgerald & Jazz At The Philharmonic, Stockholm 1957 (Tax 3703) and two with Duke Ellington from their 1966 tour, Live at the Greek Theatre,.Ella in Rome, The Birthday Concert (835 454-2).Or just go whole hog and invest some salary in the 16-CD box The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books (519 832).

George and Ira Gershwin (three CDs, 821 024-2).

It is absolutely essential.Īnd last but not least: Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings (Decca Jazz 648), a 4-CD set released in 1995.

The Early Years, Part II 1939-41 (Decca Jazz 623) andĪlso: Pure Ella contains two LPs worth of superlative duos with the great.

3 1938-'39(518), both with her own post-Webb orchestra onĪmerican Decca has also so far issued three doubles of early Ella, whichĪre neither complete nor can they be called highlights either (they'reĪlmost complete, omitting only the occasional track that the producerĭidn't like, such as "Melinda the Mousie"): 1 1935-'37 (500), with Webb and her own Savoy Eight Orchestra and Benny Goodman) have been collated most completely once again Period (with Chick Webb, Teddy Wilson, her Savoy Eight, her Famous Like many another major Afro-American artist of the '30s, her works of this Updates, additions and corrections to the listing are welcome, justĮ-mail them to All opinions expressed are strictlyħ5th Birthday Celebration (Decca Jazz 619) is a beautiful sampler of theįirst 20 years of her recording career, selected by Milt Gabler, who Undoubtedly, many Ella memorial albums will be issued before 1996 is Included are sleazy pirate issues, counterfeits and K-Mart budget items,Įtc. Worthwhile Ella CDs, available as of January 1996, are included. Press edition of Jazz Singing (coming in Fall 1996). This listing was prepared by Will Friedwald for the forthcoming Da Capo Home Essays Remember Carnegie Discography Listen Links