Ella at the Opera House

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Ella at the Opera House
Ella at the Opera House cover
Live album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1958
Recorded September 29, October 9, 1957
Genre Jazz
Length 46:48
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
(1957)		 Ella at the Opera House
(1957)		 Like Someone in Love
(1957)

Ella at the Opera House is a 1958 (see 1958 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald. The second half of the album highlights the Jazz at the Philharmonic Concerts, devised by Fitzgerald's manager Norman Granz, which featured the leading jazz players of the day in an onstage jam session, this time in Los Angeles.

This album is typical of Ella's concert repertoire in the mid 50's, singing swing standards, and songs referencing her recent 'Songbook' series, in this case, the Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart songbooks. It is also interesting to marvel at Ella's consistency in timing these songs, that six months apart, she sings the first four songs of both concerts in exactly the same time.

[edit] Track listing

For the 1986 CD re-issue Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House

  1. "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:31
  2. "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Jimmy Mundy, Illinois Jacquet, Al Stillman) – 2:42
  3. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:01
  4. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" (Jack Strachy, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) – 3:46
  5. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:45
  6. "Goody Goody" (Johnny Mercer, Matty Malneck) – 1:54
  7. "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:06
  8. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 2:08
  9. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf) – 6:12
  10. "It's All Right With Me" – 2:31
  11. "Don'cha Go Way Mad" – 2:42
  12. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – 3:01
  13. "These Foolish Things" – 3:46
  14. "Ill Wind" – 2:45
  15. "Goody Goody" – 1:54
  16. "Moonlight in Vermont" – 3:06
  17. "Stompin' at the Savoy" – 6:12
  18. "Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:24

[edit] Personnel

Tracks 1-16

Tracks 17-28