Dear Ella

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Dear Ella
Dear Ella cover
Tribute album by
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released September 30, 1997
Recorded January 29, 1997
February 19, 1997
Genre Jazz
Length 36:31
Label Verve Records
Producer Robbie Cavolina,
Anita O'Day
Professional reviews
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) album by Dee Dee Bridgewater. Dear Ella was recorded in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, who had died the previous year. Bridgewater's performance won her 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Slide Hampton's arrangement of "Cotton Tail" won him the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).

[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" (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: