Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's

Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's is a live album of a 1958 Ella Fitzgerald performance at Mister Kelly's, and released in 2007.

Released to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth, this is one of several live albums that Fitzgerald recorded in the late 1950s. Sarah Vaughan had recorded an album at Mister Kelly's several months earlier.

This was a rare outing for several of the songs on this album. Fitzgerald had only recorded "Your Red Wagon" as a single, and this was the only time that Fitzgerald had sung "Across the Alley from the Alamo", as well as her only recording of "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and her debut recording of "Witchcraft".

Track listing

For 2007 2CD release on Verve Records; Verve B0008923-02

Disc One: "The Main Show"

1. "Your Red Wagon" (Gene de Paul, Richard M. Jones, Don Raye) - 2:59
2. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:35
3. "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz) - 2:53
4. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:44
5. "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene) - 2:14
6. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder) - 5:45
7. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:01
8. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) - 5:48
9. "Summertime" (G. Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 5:00
10. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, Dave Mann) - 3:55
11. "St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy) - 6:13
12. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:57
13. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 3:48
14. "Joe Williams' Blues" (Ella Fitzgerald) - 5:57
15. Porgy and Bess Medley: "I Love You Porgy"/"Porgy, I's You Woman Now" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, Heyward)/(G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, Heyward) - 5:48
16. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) - 6:56

Disc Two: "The Late Show"

1. Introductions - 1:54
2. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 7:37
3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:29
4. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 6:15
5. "'S Wonderful" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 1:35
6. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (DePaul, Raye) - 3:37
7. "Witchcraft" - 2:51
8. "Perdido" - 6:30
9. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 4:04
10. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:04
11. "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) - 2:09

Personnel

Recorded August 10, 1958 at Mister Kelly's, Chicago:

• Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
• Lou Levy - piano
• Max Bennett - double bass
• Gus Johnson - drums

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