Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

Catalog # 731453725720
Album release date 6/24/1997
Verve Records - Verve Master Edition
Verve Review and Demos HERE

Crítica:

El cancionero de Cole Porter, es para mí el mejor de los ocho álbumes, pues cuenta con clásicos como "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)", "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", "I Love Paris", "It's De-Lovely", "I've Got You Under Me Skin", "Night And Day". Porter contribuyó notablemente al Gran cancionero Americano con éstas y otras canciones que no se incluyen en estos dos discos como "True Love" o "An Old Fashioned Garden", pero ello no resta importancia al álbum, que es magnífico. El autor falleció apenas ocho años después (1891-1964) de que se lanzara este gran tributo.

El álbum fue lanzado en 1956, donde es Ella quien interpreta las canciones acompañada por una orquesta de estudio conducida y con los arreglos de Buddy Bregman, que se enfoca en las canciones de Cole Porter.

Este fue el primer álbum de Ella en la recientemente creada Verve Records. El tiempo que pasó Fitzgerald en el sello Verve es cuando se pueden ver sus más aclamadas grabaciones y el más alto pico en su poder vocal. Este cancionero inagura la serie de Songbooks de Ella Fitzgerald, cada uno de los ocho álbumes de la serie se enfoca en diferentes compositores del catálogo conocido como el Gran Cancionero Americano. El manager de Fitzgerald (y productor de la mayoría de sus discos) Norman Granz, visitó a Cole Porter en el imponente hotel Waldolf-Astoria (New York) y reprodujeron en álbum completo. Luego, Porter simplemente remarcó, "Qué maravillosa dicción tiene esa chica"

El álbum fue incluído en el Salón de la Fama del Grammy en el 2000, con un Grammy especial establecido en 1973 que se otorga para honrar a las grabaciones que tienen por los menos veinticinco años, y que poseen "cualitativa o histórica relevancia". En el 2003, fue uno de las 50 grabaciones escogidas por la Librería del Congreso de los Estados Unidos para ser agregadas al "Registro de Grabaciones Nacionales" (Traducción: Aeroerick)

English Version (Wikipedia):

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook is a 1956 (see 1956 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter.

This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records. Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Songbook series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald's manager, (and the producer of many of her albums), Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldolf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, "My, what marvellous diction that girl has".

This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Tracklist:

For the 1997 Verve CD Reissue / Para el CD reeditado de 1997 de Verve, 537257

Disc one

01- "All Through the Night" – 3:15
02- "Anything Goes" – 3:21
03- "Miss Otis Regrets" – 3:00
04- "Too Darn Hot" – 3:47
05- "In the Still of the Night" – 2:38
06- "I Get a Kick Out of You" – 4:00
07- "Do I Love You?" – 3:50
08- "Always True to You in My Fashion" – 2:48
09- "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" – 3:32
10- "Just One of Those Things" – 3:30
11- "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" – 3:32
12- "All of You" – 1:43
13- "Begin the Beguine" – 3:37
14- "Get Out of Town" – 3:22
15- "I Am in Love" – 4:06
16- "From This Moment On" – 3:17

Disc two

01- "I Love Paris" – 4:57
02- "You Do Something To Me" – 2:21
03- "Ridin' High" – 3:20
04- "You'd Be So Easy to Love" – 3:24
05- "It's All Right With Me" – 3:07
06- "Why Can't You Behave?" – 5:04
07- "What Is This Thing Called Love?" – 2:02
08- "You're the Top" – 3:33
09- "Love for Sale" – 5:52
10- "It's De-Lovely" – 2:42
11- "Night and Day" – 3:04
12- "Ace in the Hole" – 1:58
13- "So in Love" – 3:50
14- "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 2:42
15- "I Concentrate on You" – 3:11
16- "Don't Fence Me In" – 3:19 (lyrics by Robert Fletcher)
17- "You're the Top" – 2:08
18- "I Concentrate on You" – 3:00 (bonus track)
19- "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" – 5:25 (bonus track)

All songs written entirely by Cole Porter / Todas las canciones fueron escritas por Cole Porter

Personnel / Personal

Recorded February 7 – March 27, 1956, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Ella Fitzgerald – Vocals
Pete Candoli – Trumpet
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Maynard Ferguson
Conrad Gozzo
Milt Bernhart – Trombone
Joe Howard
Lloyd Ulyate
George Roberts – Trombone (Bass), Trombone (Baritone)
Bob Cooper – Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone (Tenor)
Herb Geller – Clarinet, Saxophone (Alto)
Chuck Gentry – Clarinet (Bass), Saxophone (Baritone)
Ted Nash – Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone (Tenor)
Bud Shank – Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone (Alto)
Robert LaMarchina – Cello
Edgar Lustgarten
Corky Hale – Harp
Barney Kessel – Guitar
Joe Mondragon – Double Bass
Paul Smith – Piano, Celeste
Alvin Stoller – Percussion, drums
Buddy Bregman – Arranger, Conductor