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Responding to the demand for mood music albums in 1958, Decca put together an LP of ballads and things that Ella Fitzgerald recorded in tandem with Decca's all-purpose music director Gordon Jenkins when he was riding high in the early '50s. Fitzgerald could invoke a few jazz inflections here and there, particularly on a bluesy rendition of "Black Coffee," but she is asked mostly to play the role of a white-bread pop crooner. All of Jenkins' harmonic, big-band, orchestral and choral trademarks are in full play here, evoking the cozy ambience of postwar suburbia as completely as anyone did in those days. As a period piece, it is very enlightening, but Fitzgerald's best Decca work lay elsewhere.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Dorothy Parker, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ralph Rainger, Composer
℗ 1954 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Floyd Huddleston, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Colby, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1954 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Ray Noble, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Dave Franklin, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jack Lawrence, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - DORIS TAUBER, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1954 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Paul Francis Webster, ComposerLyricist - SONNY BURKE, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Morty Nevins, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Bob Merrill, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Grace LeBoy Kahn, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ralph Care, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sol Marcus, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1954 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jenny Lou Carson, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Gordon Jenkins, Conductor - Milt Gabler, Producer - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1949 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Responding to the demand for mood music albums in 1958, Decca put together an LP of ballads and things that Ella Fitzgerald recorded in tandem with Decca's all-purpose music director Gordon Jenkins when he was riding high in the early '50s. Fitzgerald could invoke a few jazz inflections here and there, particularly on a bluesy rendition of "Black Coffee," but she is asked mostly to play the role of a white-bread pop crooner. All of Jenkins' harmonic, big-band, orchestral and choral trademarks are in full play here, evoking the cozy ambience of postwar suburbia as completely as anyone did in those days. As a period piece, it is very enlightening, but Fitzgerald's best Decca work lay elsewhere.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:35:03
- Main artists: Ella Fitzgerald
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: GRP
- Genre: Jazz Vocal Jazz
© 1954 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1954 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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