Ella Fitzgerald: The Voice Of Jazz

[crisp]

After Mosaic's complete Ella on Decca, Decca brings you the incomplete Ella on Decca and Verve. 10 CDs. Wonder if they had access to the metal parts?

More than 200 tracks are newly remastered, with 8 CDs of studio recordings and 2 of live recordings, including a complete unreleased concert from the 1960s. Plus a 96-page book.

Details and track listing at this German site.

It's cheap enough at Amazon UK (£46.99), but this would have to be cheaper still to make it worth my while.

[jazzbo]

Interesting set. Just in time for the holidays! If I weren't buying my parents a new sofa for Xmas I might have this as one of their gifts.

Edited October 27, 2013 by jazzbo

[king ubu]

Does look nice for sure:

But then I've got way too much to be in for this, I guess ... unless that live concert turns out extremely tempting. Can't find any more specific information about it yet though.

[J.A.W.]

I wonder which sources they used for the Decca sides from the 1930s and early 1940s.

[king ubu]

Maybe those used in the recent French box?

[jazzbo]

That would be my guess.

[king ubu]

anyone actually bought this? what's the prev. unissued live material exactly? can't seem to find any particulars looking at allmusic, the UMG page or amazon customer reviews ...

[king ubu]

I took out the Ella box yesterday, bought it a few months back when it was quite cheap for a while ... it's a lovely package with a hardbound book and all ... but no info on who wrote the liner notes (same think in Universal's large Nat Cole box, I think, don't have it at hand), and that purported complete concert from the 1960s is nowhere to be found. There may be a few stray comparatively rare live tracks on the two final discs (the ninth is mostly JATP 1949 and all in the JATP 1944-49 box, the tenth hold various tracks from mostly well-known live albums, in between there are a few fifties JATP tracks I might not have elsewhere).