Rhythm Is My Business

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Rhythm Is My Business
Rhythm Is My Business cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1962
Recorded January 30, 31 1962
Genre Jazz
Length 42:25
Label Verve Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews

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Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella Returns to Berlin
(1961)		 Rhythm Is My Business
(1962)		 Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson
(1962)

Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 (see 1962 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a band arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett.

Down Beat jazz magazine awarded this album 3 1/2 stars, commenting that the emphasis here was on 'swinging'.

[edit] Track listing

For the 1999 Verve CD reissue, 559 513-2.

1. "Rough Ridin'" (Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, William Tennyson) 2:51
2. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) 2:43
3. "You Can Depend on Me" (Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) 3:32
4. "Runnin' Wild" (Arthur Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood) 2:40
5. "Show Me the Way to Go Out of This World 'Cause That's Where Everything Is" (Les Clark, Matt Dennis) 2:42
6. "I'll Always Be In Love With You" (Bud Green, Herman Ruby, Sam H. Stept) 2:50
7. "Hallelujah, I Love Him So" (Ray Charles) 2:34
8. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) 5:00
9. "No Moon at All" (Redd Evans, Dave Mann) 2:36
10. "Laughin' on the Outside" (Ben Raleigh, Bernie Wayne) 4:53
11. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) 4:08
12. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) 2:35
13. "If I Could Be With You" (Creamer, James P. Johnson) 2:39
  • Tracks 12 and 13 were previously unissued.

[edit] Personnel

Recorded January 30/31, 1962 , Webster Hall, New York City:

Tracks 1-13

  • Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
  • Taft Jordan - Trumpet
  • Ernie Royal - Trumpet
  • Joe Wilder - Trumpet
  • Melba Liston - Trombone
  • Kai Winding - Trombone
  • Britt Woodman - Trombone
  • Carl Davis - Reeds
  • Jerry Dodgion - Reeds
  • William Shakesnider - Reeds
  • Les Taylor - Reeds
  • Phil Woods - Reeds
  • Hank Jones - Piano
  • Mundell Lowe - Guitar
  • Lucile Dixon - Bass
  • George Duvivier - Bass
  • Gus Johnson - Drums
  • Bill Doggett - Arranger, Conductor, Organ on Rough Ridin' .