Ella in Hollywood

[crisp]

Amazon.com is listing this Verve title for a November 10 release, here.

As usual with Verve, hard info is hard to find, but the price suggests a boxed set. A review on Amazon.de suggests that it will include the complete Crescendo, LA, live dates from 11-21 May 1961: 139 songs. Don't know where he gets that from, though.

[Peter Donolo]

Found the track list on the Japanese HMV website, of all places. To my mind, I

don't think I've heard Ella sing "My Kind of Boy" or "I Found a New Baby". In

any case, there's no such thing as too much prime Ella (though this adds up to under 80 songs - not 139)!

Disc 1

1 Introduction

2 Lover Come Back To Me

3 Too Close For Comfort

4 Little White Lies

5 On The Sunny Side Of The Street

6 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive

7 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

8 I Found A New Baby

9 On A Slow Boat To China

10 My Heart Belongs To Daddy

11 Perdido

12 I've Got A Crush On You

13 But Not For Me

14 You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me

15 Across The Alley From The Alamo

16 I'm Glad There Is You

17 'Round Midnight

18 Take The "A" Train

19 Mr. Paganini

Disc 2

1 Nice Work If You Can Get It

2 I Can't Get Started

3 Give Me The Simple Life

4 Caravan

5 One For My Baby

6 Lorelei

7 A-Tisket, A-Tasket

8 Witchcraft

9 Gone With The Wind

10 Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe

11 It's De-Lovely

12 The Lady Is A Tramp

13 That Old Black Magic

14 Lullaby Of Birdland

15 Ella Introduces The Band

16 Imagination

17 Blue Moon

18 Joe Williams' Blues

Disc 3

1 The Lady's In Love With You

2 Love Is Here To Stay

3 Come Rain Or Come Shine

4 Anything Goes

5 This Could Be The Start Of Something Big

6 Candy

7 Little Girl Blue

8 You're Driving Me Crazy

9 It's All Right With Me

10 Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)

11 'S Wonderful

12 How High The Moon

13 Deep Purple

14 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

15 Mack The Knife

16 Exactly Like You

17 Rock It For Me

18 Stompin' At The Savoy

19 Love For Sale

20 St. Louis Blues

Disc 4

1 All Of Me

2 Hard Hearted Hannah

3 Broadway

4 My Kind Of Boy

5 It Had To Be You

6 C'est Magnifique

7 How Long Has This Been Going On

8 When Your Lover Has Gone

9 Taking A Chance On Love

10 Good Morning Heartache

11 Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie!

12 Hallelujah I Love Him So

13 Angel Eyes

14 Ol' Man Mose

15 Teach Me Tonight

16 Medley: Too Darn Hot / Ella's Twist

17 Too Darn Hot

18 Bewitched

19 Bill Bailey

20 Bill Bailey Reprise

http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/3648732/track/1

Peter Donolo

uote name='crisp' date='Oct 2 2009, 09:53 AM' post='961234']

Amazon.com is listing this Verve title for a November 10 release, here.

As usual with Verve, hard info is hard to find, but the price suggests a boxed set. A review on Amazon.de suggests that it will include the complete Crescendo, LA, live dates from 11-21 May 1961: 139 songs. Don't know where he gets that from, though.

[crisp]

Great work -- thanks, Peter!

[Tom Storer]

Any idea who was in her trio for this? Paul Smith?

[king ubu]

Lou Levy (p), Herb Ellis (g), Wilfred Middlebrooks (b), Gus Johnson (d)

Crescendo Club, Los Angeles, Ca., May 11 & 21, 1961

Could be nice... or a nice x-mas gift for my mom, that's for sure!

Quite a steep price for a 4CD set though, 70€!

Will it include one of Ella's 70s glasses as a bonus?

[king ubu]

This single one is from the same gig, I gather? Seen it but haven't heard it:

[Elissa]

any reports? my bday's coming up...

[BFrank]

This single one is from the same gig, I gather? Seen it but haven't heard it:

That's a GREAT album. I've had it for many years on vinyl and recently picked up that CD, too. Easily compares with "In Berlin".

Could be monster of a box.

[neveronfriday]

That box is way too expensive.

In comparison to the OP box, they nearly added 20 Euro for one more CD.

Pricing sucks on this one.

[bebopbob]

I just opened my copy-all the discs are scratched and have dried glue on them! The discs are wedged into very tight envelopes which are obviously glued together. Very poor packaging.

Bob

[tranemonk]

I thought the packaging (and music) was great.. I didn't have any problems with the CD's...

Ella's goofing around on about 3 or 4 songs but otherwise I highly recommend it...!

Yes it's from the same gig but there's no duplication between the individual CD and the new boxed set....

This single one is from the same gig, I gather? Seen it but haven't heard it:

[king ubu]

I thought the packaging (and music) was great.. I didn't have any problems with the CD's...

Ella's goofing around on about 3 or 4 songs but otherwise I highly recommend it...!

Yes it's from the same gig but there's no duplication between the individual CD and the new boxed set....

This single one is from the same gig, I gather? Seen it but haven't heard it:

What?!? Are you serious!

So they do this friggin' expensive box set but they DON'T INCLUDE the originally released album? So they want us to buy the box AND the album? Crazy! This is really unbelievable!

[Brownian Motion]

November 29, 2009

Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered

By FRED KAPLAN

WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years — the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on — it’s hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record company’s archives.

Yet Verve has just released “Twelve Nights in Hollywood,” a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and ’62 — and none of it has ever been released until now.

These aren’t bootlegs; the CDs were mastered from the original tapes, which were produced by Norman Granz, Verve’s founder and Fitzgerald’s longtime manager.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/arts/music/29ella.html?hp

[jostber]

This should be a fine one! Thanks for the link.

[BFrank]

I'm sure this is great. Apparently it's from the same dates as "Ella in Hollywood," which is one of her best live albums.

[jazzbo]

Discussed before, here among other places: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=55070

Looks great!

[Jerry]

You can actually listen to the whole thing free here: http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ellafi...ts_in_hollywood

edit: well, you can listen to 25 tracks for free. Recommended: Take the A Train, All of Me.

Edited November 27, 2009 by Jerry

[Elissa]

Isn't the How High the Moon on here on Pure Ella?

[tranemonk]

My understanding is that this ALL newly released material... I have the box... Pretty good (A little uneven... but overall good.)

Isn't the How High the Moon on here on Pure Ella?

[neveronfriday]

Also, as far as I can tell, the set is either sold out in most places or it is on backorder. All the amazon sites are out of stock and have switched to the 2 to 4 weeks bla bla.

As an avid collector, I'll do the usual, give the industry the finger and get it elsewhere.

Have to, really.

It is unbelievable. limited to 8000 sets, whereas any other junk gets a print run of 60 trillion copies.

Edited December 4, 2009 by neveronfriday

[tjluke68]

There's a great article on the boxset and its origins here:

Ella Fitzgerald - Rediscovered

Edited December 4, 2009 by tjluke68

[Joe Bip]

Also, as far as I can tell, the set is either sold out in most places or it is on backorder. All the amazon sites are out of stock and have switched to the 2 to 4 weeks bla bla. As an avid collector, I'll do the usual, give the industry the finger and get it elsewhere. Have to, really. It is unbelievable. limited to 8000 sets, whereas any other junk gets a print run of 60 trillion copies.

It looks like Jazz Loft is still taking preorders for it.

[jazzbo]

There's a great article on the boxset and its origins here:

Ella Fitzgerald - Rediscovered

Yet another reason to than Phil Schaap (I'm not one of his detractors).

I love that photograph mentioned in the closing paragraph.

[take5]

My understanding is that this ALL newly released material... I have the box... Pretty good (A little uneven... but overall good.)

Isn't the How High the Moon on here on Pure Ella?

This is actually the same source material as Ella In Hollywood. I've never heard that album but apparently it had a bunch of extra applause which this of course does not.

NPR was playing it today and I was blown away- I'm not even that big of a fan. But like everyone else here I've heard like a gazillion Ella albums, comps and box sets but this is probably the best one.

Ella's Verve material is often so weighed down with orchestration and heady concepts that it's a joy to just here her as a jazz singer. The sound quality is really great, too.

[Larry Kart]

Guys! Again, before starting a new thread, please take a look to see if there isn't already a thread on the topic. Cleaning up these multiple threads is tedious and annoying. You know who you are.