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ELLA FITZGERALD Vol. 3
Oh! Lady Be Good
 Naxos
Jazz Legends 8.120716
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- Oh! Lady Be good
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Flying Home
- I Didn’t Mean a Word I Said
- I’m Just A Lucky So & So
- How High the Moon
- Basin Street Blues
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- My One & Only Love
- But Not For Me
- Looking for a Boy
- I’ve Got a Crush on You
- How Long has this Been going On?
- Maybe
- Soon
- Smooth sailing
- Rough Riding
- (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It
- Air Mail Special
I have no doubt in my mind that Ella Fitzgerald was
the greatest jazz vocalist of all time. Since she passed on, nobody
has even come close to filling the void that she left in the jazz
world and because the whole scene has changed, most probably they
never will. Any talented jazz artist these days is seized on by the
record companies and agencies and repackaged as a moneymaking machine
for them. No vocalist seems to be content to be a star in the limited
jazz field, commercial exploitation is king and it doesn’t matter
much whether you can sing, its what you look like that’s important!
This record gives us all of the best of Ella; scat
singing second to none and more jazz feel than any vocalist I know.
Great ballad singing, Someone to Watch Over Me as an example, beautifully
sung and complete with verse. Tracks 8 to 15 have just Ellis Larkins
on piano and Ella on vocals, but they sound complete and swing in
the same way as they would if she were with a full rhythm section
or a big band. Listen to Soon from this session a great tune immaculately
sung. By contrast the story telling on track 18 is equally good, it
is probably only Ella who could perform this song adequately. The
last track with Ray Brown’s Band and the Ray Charles Singers is another
real swinger.
Another ‘must have’ Ella Fitzgerald record.
Don Mather
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