Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book (1964/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

Recorded in 1964, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book was recorded at Radio Recorders Studio 10-H in Los Angeles, California with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. The album was the only songbook collection Ella recorded that concentrates on the work of a lyricist instead of a composer. Riddle created wonderfully lush arrangements, and the album was Ella’s fifth and final collaboration with the conductor and arranger during her years on the Verve label.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (1963/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

For the seventh album in her celebrated Song Book series, Ella Fitzgerald tackled classic melodies written for Broadway and Hollywood by Jerome Kern, the grandfather of the modern musical comedy, with backing by the orchestra of Nelson Riddle, the dean of Hollywood pop-jazz arrangers. The album was recorded on January 5-7, 1963 at Radio Recorders Studio 10H in Los Angeles and features some of the best studio musicians of the time, including Don Fagerquist (trumpet), Plas Johnson (tenor saxophone), and Wilbur Schwartz (clarinet). For lovers of good songs and good singing, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a triple treat.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book (1958/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:31:07 minutes | 3,83 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

Released in 1958, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook features arrangements by Paul Weston. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for ALbum of the Year at the inaugural Grammy Awards. Fitzgerald won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook Vol.1 (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:33 minutes | 2,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Long considered a jewel in Verve Records’ very impressive crown, Fitzgerald’s songbook collections of various composers–a series that was started by the success of this set–are all wonderful, but her natural wit and intelligence was at its most perfect with Cole Porter’s erudite, urbane songs. While not as scat-oriented as her small group outings, these Porter sets offer her most realized pop performances. Also, the gold remastering does a fine job of bringing out the nuances in the arrangements, making this a treasure for the serious collector and the casual listener alike. A true American music gem.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:41 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

Considered one of Ella’s greatest recordings, she’s backed on this 1960 release by pianist Paul Smith. Let No Man Write My Epitaph was a 1960 Hollywood movie featuring Fitzgerald. The album hits at a depth of emotional understanding that critics often complained was missing in Ella’s reading of jazz lyrics, and once again establishes her as one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella & Louis Again (1957/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:22 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

Ella & Louis Again (192kHz/24-bit/Reissue) by Ella Fitzgerald.

In 1957 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong teamed up for their second recording of popular tunes drawn mostly from the “Great American Songbook”. Produced by the legendary Norman Granz, this album features an all-star group of musicians including Armstrong on vocals and trumpet, Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass and Louie Bellson on drums.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Twelve Nights In Hollywood! Vol.2 (2009/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:17:50 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a 2009 live album by the American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles over ten nights in May 1961, and a subsequent pair of performances in June 1962.

In 1961 Fitzgerald released an album of her live performances at the Crescendo, Ella in Hollywood, this album repeats none of those tracks, or the subsequent two singles that resulted from her 1962 stay, “Ol’ Man Mose” and “Bill Bailey”.

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Ella Fitzgerald – Twelve Nights In Hollywood! (2009/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:53:46 minutes | 2,18 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Twelve Nights in Hollywood is a 2009 live album by the American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood, Los Angeles over ten nights in May 1961, and a subsequent pair of performances in June 1962.

In 1961 Fitzgerald released an album of her live performances at the Crescendo, Ella in Hollywood, this album repeats none of those tracks, or the subsequent two singles that resulted from her 1962 stay, “Ol’ Man Mose” and “Bill Bailey”.

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