Ella Fitzgerald - The Essential

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (Newport News, 25 de abril de 1917 - Beverly Hills, 15 de junio de 1996), conocida como Ella Fitzgerald y apodada Lady Ella y The First Lady of Song (La primera dama de la canción), fue una cantante estadounidense de jazz. No obstante esta condición básica de jazzista, el repertorio musical de Ella Fitzgerald es amplísimo e incluye swing, blues, bossa nova, samba, gospel, calypso, canciones navideñas, pop, etc.

Junto con Billie Holiday y Sarah Vaughan, está considerada como la cantante más importante e influyente de la historia del jazz (y, en general, de la canción melódica popular de Estados Unidos). Estaba dotada de una voz con un rango vocal de tres octavas, destacando su clara y precisa vocalización y su capacidad de improvisación, sobre todo en el scat, técnica que desarrolló en los años cuarenta y que anunció el surgimiento del bop. En los años cincuenta sentó cátedra con su concepción de la canción melódica, en paralelo a la obra de Frank Sinatra, con sus versiones de los temas de los grandes compositores de la canción popular estadounidense (los songbooks de Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, etc.). El único reparo que se le ha puesto a su talento interpretativo es cierta incapacidad para adaptarse emocionalmente a letras con contenido dramático.





ESSENTIAL 1:
A Beautiful Friendship    
Baby, It's Cold Outside (With Louis Jordan)    
But Not For Me    
Cow Cow Boogie (With Ink Spots)    
Dont Fence Me In    
Get Happy    
Hello Ma, I Done It Again    
I Get A Kic Out Of You    
I'm Beginning To See The Light (With Duke Ellington)    
Imagination   
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (With Ink Spots)    
It Never Entered My Mind    
It's Too Soon to Know    
Lets Face The Music And Dance    
Lets Fall In Love    
My Happiness    
Once Too Of Ten    
Shake Down The Stars    
Sings But Not For Me    
Sugar Blues    
Summertime (With Louis Armstrong)    
Teardrops From My Eyes    
Teardrops From My Eyes (With Marty Paich Dektette)    
You Do Something To Me    
You Won't be Satisfied (With Louis Armstrong)


ESSENTIAL 2:
A Fine Romance    
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (With Song Spinner)    
Angel Eyes Layo Bushwacka Mix    
Big Boy Blue (With Mills Brothers)    
Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No (With Louis Armstrong)    
Cheek to Cheek    
Crying In The Chapel (With Bill Doggett's Orchestra)    
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye    
Five O'clock Whistle    
How High The Moon (With Daydreamer)    
Just You, Just Me (With Marty Paich's Dektette)    
Manhattan
Melancholy Me    
My Heart and I Decided (WithFour Keys)    
Nice Work If You Can Get It    
Night Day    
Petootie Pie (With Louis Jordan)    
Sing Song Swing    
Smooth Sailing    
Stone Cold Dead in The Market (With Louis Jordan)    
That's My Desire (With Bob Haggart)    
The Muffin Man    
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons


ESSENTIAL 3:
Cry Me a River    
Dedicated To You (With Mills Brothers)    
Guilty (With Eddy Heywood)    
I Need (With Gordon Jenkins Chorus And Orchestra)    
I Want the Waiter (With the Water)    
I'll Never Be Fee (With Louis Jordan)    
I'm Beginning to See The Light (With Ink Spots)    
I'm Making Believe (With Ink Spots)    
It's Only a Paper Moon (With Delta Rhythm Boys)    
Lets Do It Lets Fall In Love    
Louisville K-Y    
One For My Baby    
Someone to Watch Over Me    
The Best is Yet To Come    
The Frim Fram Sauce (With Louis Armstrong)    
The Starlit Hour    
They Cant Take That Away From    
Trying (With Leroy Kirkland's Orchestra)    
Wait Till You See Him De Phazz Remix    
Walkin' By The River (With Leroy Kirkland)    
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street

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