Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:39
Size: 98,3 MB
Art: Front
(3:30) 1. Black Coffee
(3:30) 2. Angel Eyes
(3:29) 3. I Cried For You
(3:31) 4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
(3:13) 5. Then You've Never Been Blue
(2:51) 6. I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You
(3:00) 7. My Melancholy Baby
(2:54) 8. Misty
(3:43) 9. September Song
(4:20) 10. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
(3:29) 11. Who's Sorry Now
(2:38) 12. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
(2:24) 13. Reach For Tomorrow
This is a most unusual Ella Fitzgerald recording. Recorded around the time when she performed some of these songs for the film Let No Man Write My Epitaph, the masterful singer is heard in duets with pianist Paul Smith interpreting 13 songs (even "I Cried for You," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," and "Who's Sorry Now?") at slow expressive tempos. Listeners who feel that Ella Fitzgerald was mostly a scat singer who had trouble giving the proper emotional intensity to lyrics will be surprised by this sensitive and often-haunting set. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-intimate-ella-mw0000689903
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Paul Smith (piano).
Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Paul Smith (piano).
The Intimate Ella
oh thank you very very much Giullia!
ReplyDeleteHey Nappyrags, Thank You very very much as always!
DeleteWow! I'm going to put this on for friends and see how long it takes them to figure out who it is. After a couple of seconds, it really is plainly Ella -- for the vocal tone, the vibrato, the dynamics. But it's so much more piano bar/cabaret-ish than what we're accustomed to with, for example, Ella's dazzling songbooks with all that highly wrought Ellington/Strayhorn and Nelson Riddle orchestration, this is like a totally different performer -- well, how about a totally semi-different performer? Ella was always brilliant, but I don't usually think of her as seductive exactly -- and this is seductive. A beautiful departure. And catch that "Misty." Another great, amazing post! Thanks as always, Giullia and others.
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DeleteHi - It looks as if my comment yesterday didn't carry over. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Asking kindly for a re-uo on this please. Thank you very much! - Eddie
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Thank you SO much!! - Eddie
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