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Format: CD
Jun 1996
Record Label: Verve (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 731453176225 |
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Track Listing
1. From This Moment On
2. Solitude
3. Love You Madly
4. All the Things You Are
5. I Concentrate on You
6. Out of This World
7. How About Me?
8. I'm Beginning to See the Light
9. Man I Love, The
10. I Remember You
11. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
12. Always
13. Just One of Those Things
14. Prelude to a Kiss
15. All Too Soon
16. Lover
Album Notes
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Stuff Smith (violin); Paul Smith, Oscar Peterson (piano); Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (guitar); Ray Brown, Joe Mondragon (bass); Alvin Stoller (drums); Buddy Bregman Orchestra, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Billy May Orchestra, Paul Weston Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Compilation producer: Michael Lang.
Recorded between 1956 and 1964. Includes liner notes by Bret Primack.
Beginning in the mid-'50s, Ella Fitzgerald and producer Norman Granz began the Songbook series, a string of albums devoted to the works of classic American songwriters like Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and George and Ira Gershwin. LOVE SONGS: BEST OF THE VERVE SONGBOOKS is a wonderful, though far from comprehensive, precis of these indispensable albums. With backing from the orchestras of Ellington, Count Basie, Nelson Riddle and Billy May, Fitzgerald performs magnificent, often definitive, versions of some of the greatest pop songs ever written. Ellington's "Prelude To A Kiss" and Rodgers and Hart's "Lover" are only two of the many highlights, but the entire album is a glorious sampling of some of the best work by one of jazz's most gifted vocalists.
Industry Reviews
In terms of tonal beauty, Fitzgerald's voice was its most sublime from the mid'50s to early '60s, during which she recorded the landmark `songbook' albums... - Rating: A
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