Dear Ella
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Dear Ella | |||||
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Tribute album by Dee Dee Bridgewater |
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Released | September 30, 1997 | ||||
Recorded | January 29, 1997 – February 19, 1997 |
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Genre | Jazz | ||||
Length | 36:31 | ||||
Label | Verve Records | ||||
Producer | Robbie Cavolina, Anita O'Day |
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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
- "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 2:32
- "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:59
- "Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 6:22
- "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 7:22
- "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:31
- "How High the Moon" (Morgan Hamilton, Nancy Lewis) – 5:05
- "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 6:34
- "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 2:58
- "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Porter) – 5:05
- "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:57
- "Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:39
- "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:10
- "Dear Ella" Burrell – 4:56
[edit] Personnel
Recorded January 29 - February 19, 1997, in New York City:
- Dee Dee Bridgewater - Vocals