Los cancioneros son una vasta producción que realizó Ella Fitzgerald a lo largo de su carrera en Verve Music Group, donde tuvo como productor a Norman Granz (1918 - 2001) quien como productor supo desarrollar el potencial de la dama del Jazz en cuanto a ritmo y claridad vocal.
Los cancioneros son álbumes que contienen los temas de los compositores más importantes de música popular de los Estados Unidos como Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, entre otros y suman en conjunto 8 álbumes / 16 CD's que fueron grabados de manera irregular entre el intervalo de 1956 hasta 1964. Finalmente fueron lanzados como un Box Set en 1994 y logró el Grammy de 1995 en la categoría de "Mejor Grabación Histórica".
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956) (Bregman)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957) (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958) (Paul Weston)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) (Nelson Riddle)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961) (Billy May)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (1963) (Riddle)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964) (Riddle)
Review From Wikipedia:
The Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks were a series of eight studio albums released in irregular intervals between 1956 and 1964, recorded by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, supported by a variety of orchestras, big bands, and jazz quartets.
They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the Great American Songbook.
The New York Times columnist Frank Rich was moved to write a few days after Ella's death that in the songbook series, Ella "performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis's contemporaneous integration of white and African-American soul. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians." Frank Sinatra was moved out of respect for Ella to block Capitol from re-releasing his own albums in a similar, single composer vein.
Verve reissued the eight albums in 1994 in this expansive boxset, which won the 1995 Grammy for Best Historical Recording.
Los cancioneros, en orden de grabación son:
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956) (Buddy Bregman)- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956) (Bregman)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957) (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958) (Paul Weston)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) (Nelson Riddle)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961) (Billy May)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (1963) (Riddle)
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964) (Riddle)
Review From Wikipedia:
The Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks were a series of eight studio albums released in irregular intervals between 1956 and 1964, recorded by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, supported by a variety of orchestras, big bands, and jazz quartets.
They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the Great American Songbook.
The New York Times columnist Frank Rich was moved to write a few days after Ella's death that in the songbook series, Ella "performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis's contemporaneous integration of white and African-American soul. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians." Frank Sinatra was moved out of respect for Ella to block Capitol from re-releasing his own albums in a similar, single composer vein.
Verve reissued the eight albums in 1994 in this expansive boxset, which won the 1995 Grammy for Best Historical Recording.
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