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Ella & Basie

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella & Basie

 
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Label: Polygram Records
Rating: 5.0
 
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Description: This 1963 session is a fine meeting of two great performers with a single-minded devotion to swing, a high point for both in the decade. The tunes are all familiar standards, many with roots in jazz, while the arrangements by Quincy Jones seem ideal. They're perfectly matched to Count Basie's idiom while providing a fine complement to Ella Fitzgerald's vocal leads. They may possibly be the best settings ever constructed for her scat singing. Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose" swings infectiously and has Fitzgerald scatting ebulliently, while his "Ain't Misbehavin'" becomes a gentle ballad. The same depth of feeling colors "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," while "Satin Doll" insinuates and "Them There Eyes" bounces infectiously from the first beat. --Stuart Broomer
 
 

 
Tracklist of Ella & Basie

Disc 1
1 Honeysuckle Rose  2:42 no lyrics yet - submit it
2 'Deed I Do   no lyrics yet - submit it
3 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall  3:10 no lyrics yet - submit it
4 Them There Eyes  5:10 no lyrics yet - submit it
5 Dream a Little Dream of Me  3:08 no lyrics yet - submit it
6 Tea for Two  3:17 no lyrics yet - submit it
7 Satin Doll  3:30 view lyrics
8 I'm Beginning to See the Light  2:45 no lyrics yet - submit it
9 Shiny Stockings  3:32 no lyrics yet - submit it
10 My Last Affair  4:37 no lyrics yet - submit it
11 Ain't Misbehavin'   no lyrics yet - submit it
12 On the Sunny Side of the Street  3:05 no lyrics yet - submit it
15 Robbins Nest (Breakdown) [#]  2:29 no lyrics yet - submit it

Reviews:

For Lovers of Swing

Absolultely priceless. Ella was always impressive when she had someone to impress, as her collaborations with Satch, Duke, and Louis Jordan prove. This 1963 studio date is certainly a winner. The scat exchange on "Honeysuckle Rose" shows that Ella is in a playful mood. Her phrasing throughout the album is inventive and she eloquently re-melodicizes classic standards like "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street". "Tea for Two" is a lesson in sweet sincerity. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" makes Mama Cass actually seem mediocre and once you hear Ella and Basie do "Deed I Do" it is likely no other version will ever satisfy. Basically (or Basie-cally) the entire album is like a big advertisement for the glory days of swing. God Bless Norman Granz.

One of the best combinations ever conceived!

I wore out the LP, and probably the 7" open reel tape at the Rochester (NY) Public Library when I was a kid. Now that I'm a touch over 40, I still think that this was one of the finest jazz records ever made. Mr. Granz (up in heaven with all the greats), thank you very, very much for this wonderful aggregation of musical delights.

what more could you sak for?

I haven't heard this album in a couple of years and I can still hear every note in my head. A classic.