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Pure Ella (Decca) (CD)

By: Ella Fitzgerald (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Pure Ella (Decca) (CD) Album By Ella Fitzgerald (Artist)
1   Someone To Watch Over Me
2   My One And Only
3   But Not For Me
4   Looking For A Boy
5   I've Got A Crush On You
6   How Long Has This Been Going On?
7   Maybe
8   Soon
9   I'm Glad There Is You
10   What Is There To Say?
11   People Will Say We're In Love
12   Please Be Kind
13   Until The Real Thing Comes Along
14   Makin' Whoopee
15   Imagination
16   Star Dust
17   My Heart Belongs To Daddy
18   You Leave Me Breathless
19   Baby, What Else Can I Do?
20   Nice Work If You Can Get It
 
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Title Note

2 LPs on 1 CD.

Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Ellis Larkin (piano).

Producer: Milt Gabler.

Reissue producer: Orrin Keepnews.

Recorded in New York City, New York on September 11-12, 1950 and March 29-30, 1954. Includes liner notes by James Gavin.

Tracks 1-8 were originally released as ELLA SINGS GERSHWIN on Decca (5300). Tracks 9-20 were originally released as SONGS IN A MELLOW MOOD on Decca (8068).

Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).

This is part of Decca's Legendary Masters Of Jazz series.

Throughout her long career, Ella Fitzgerald was usually accorded the full orchestral treatment. She rarely recorded with a straight trio except in live settings, and almost never appeared with piano accompaniment alone. It is for this reason that these Decca sessions with the superb pianist Ellis Larkins are so special.

The first eight selections on PURE ELLA, which was originally released as the 10-inch LP ELLA SINGS GERSHWIN, find the singer beginning to explore the work of a composer she would thoroughly master a few years later on the more famous GERSHWIN SONGBOOK sessions for Norman Granz's Verve label. Still, these earlier versions and other purely rendered standards are hard to match for sheer loveliness, due in large part to the sympathetic stylings of Larkins, who unassumingly takes up the role of equal collaborator, his touch and tone so distinctive. The session belongs to Ella of course. Her burgeoning artistry was just coming into focus at the time of this album's release, and PURE ELLA was certainly a harbinger of major achievements to come.

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