On September 4, 1956, Ella Fitzgerald started work on some of the bold albums of her profession – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook. It was her third songbook of the yr, which started with The Cole Porter Songboookay and The Rodgers and Hart Songbook.
Ella completed The Rodgers and Hart Songbook lower than every week earlier than she started the Ellington venture and when she did she recorded 15 tracks on that September day. It was reduce at Capitol Studio in Los Angeles and one of many highlights of that day’s session was “In a Sentimental Mood,” the fourteenth of fifteen tracks accomplished, which options simply Ella and Barney Kessel’s good guitar accompaniment.
Among the many different tracks Ella recorded on September 4 was one of many composer’s best-known songs, “Satin Doll”; accompanying Ella are tenor saxophonist, Ben Webster, violinist, Stuff Smith, Paul Smith on piano, Barney Kessel, Joe Mondragon on bass, and drummer Alvin Stoller.
Because the New York Occasions mentioned of the Songbook sequence, “These albums were among the first pop records to devote such serious attention to individual songwriters, and they were instrumental in establishing the pop album as a vehicle for serious musical exploration.”
Eight months in a while June 24, 1957, Ella was again within the studio, this time with Duke Ellington and his orchestra to document his theme tune, ‘Take The A Train’. It options the unimaginable saxophone line up of, Johnny Hodges (alto sax) Russell Procope (alto sax) Paul Gonsalves (tenor sax), and Harry Carney (baritone sax). Extra periods adopted over the following three days, however such was the scope of the album that it was nonetheless not full.
Following an look on the Newport Jazz Pageant on Independence Day, Verve’s proprietor and Ella’s supervisor, Norman Granz, determined to capitalize on the success of the Ella & Louis album by repeating the method, with Ella & Louis Once more.
In September, Ella was again out on the highway with Jazz at The Philharmonic and when the tour was over in October she returned to Capitol Studios to document with Frank DeVol, for the album Like Somebody In Love. Two days in a while October 17 , work resumed on The Duke Ellington Songbook when Ella recorded “Mood Indigo” with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, and Alvin Stoller.
On September 3, 1957, Duke and his Orchestra recorded a chunk composed for the album by Billy Strayhorn that was entitled, Portrait of Ella, a piece in 4 actions. It, together with one other Strayhorn instrumental, took up the ultimate facet of the second double album.
Work was lastly full on the Ellington Songbook and this frenzy of recording meant that Ella recorded shut to at least one hundred tracks in 1957.
The album was launched in two volumes; the primary quantity comprised Fitzgerald with the Ellington orchestra, the second of Fitzgerald with a small group setting.
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