| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook | ||||
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| Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | January 5,6,7, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 43:00 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with an Orchestra conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle, focusing on the songs of Jerome Kern.
Ella had previously recorded with Riddle on her epic George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and had recorded two albums of standards with him in 1962.
This was the seventh album in Ella's series of historic recordings of songs written by the great Broadway composers. The previous albums were dedicated to songs by;
The last songbook, dedicated to Johnny Mercer (Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book) was to be released in 1964.
In contrast to the Johnny Mercer Songbook, (the only Songbook dedicated to a lyricist), this is the only Songbook where the composer does not contribute any of the lyrics. Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat Magazine in 1963, this album contains a fine selection of Jazz standards, with All the Things You Are, (named by Tony Bennett as his favourite song), a wistful Oscar winning The Way You Look Tonight, which contrasts beautifully with Sinatra's more famous swinging version from his 1964 album Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners, and A Fine Romance from Astaire and Roger's Swing Time.
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For the 1963 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4060; Re-issued in 2005 on CD, Verve B0003933-02
Side One:
Side Two:
All music written by Jerome Kern with lyricists as indicated.
Recorded January 5,6,7 1963 at Radio Recorders Studio 10H, Los Angeles:
Tracks 1,3,5,6 and 8
On Tracks 2,4, and 7:
Personnel Same as Tracks 1,3,5,6, and 8 except Felix Slatkin and Marshall Sosson Violin replace Don Lube and Sidney Sharp; Edgar Lustgarten Cello replaces Ray Kramer; and add Ann Stockton on Harp.
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