Dear Ella

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Dear Ella
Studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released	September 30, 1997
Recorded	January 29 - February 19, 1997
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:31
Label	Verve Records
Producer(s)	Robbie Cavolina, Anita O'Day
Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology
Love and Peace:A Tribute to Horace Silver (1997)	Dear Ella (1997)	Live at Yoshi's (1998)

Dear Ella is a 1997 (see 1997 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater.

The album was a recorded tribute to the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year previously.

Dee Dee's performance on this album won her the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 2:32
2. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:59
3. "Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 6:22
4. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 7:22
5. "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:31
6. "How High the Moon" (Morgan Hamilton, Nancy Lewis) – 5:05
7. "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 6:34
8. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 2:58
9. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) – 5:05
10. "(I'd Like to Get You on A) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:57
11. "Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:39
12. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:10
13. "Dear Ella" Burrell – 4:56

[edit] Personnel

Recorded January 29 - February 19, 1997, in New York City:

• Dee Dee Bridgewater - Vocals