Demolindo as fronteiras entre jazz e pop, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook é uma obra clássica da música Americana. Ouça Ella Fitzgerald no pico do seu potencial vocal nesta edição 60º Aniversário da Analog Spark, numa caixa 3 LP masterizados a partir das fitas master analógicas mono por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound e prensados na RTI, este é o melhor som de sempre deste album.

• Edição Limitada
• Edição 60º Aniversário
• Caixa 3 LP Vinil 180 Gramas
• Prensagem na RTI, USA
• Masterizado a partir das Fitas Master Mono Originais
• Corte por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound
• Gravação lendária de 195 pela primeira vez em 3LP

The year 1956 documented a great chapter in the history of jazz music: Norman Granz founded his third label, VERVE, managed to win Ella Fitzgerald (who has deserted DECCA) and initiated the Songbook Series which not only attracted a totally new listening public, but also established Ella’s reputation as the First Lady of Song.

The Cole Porter Songbook marked the glorious beginning of a series which finally expanded to seven titles. The recording’s success was practically a foregone conclusion. Porter had written hundreds of wonderful songs from which Granz made an initial choice of 50 songs before Ella and the bandleader and arranger Buddy Bregman finally decided upon what was, for them, the crème de la crème. The result was a list of 32 songs, all of which make easy listening not only thanks to their melodic originality and harmonic genius but particularly to the wonderful amalgamation of the text - which Porter always wrote himself - and the music. Each and every one is a classic in its own right. Bregman’s arrangements never seek to disguise the fact that all these songs originated on Broadway, and Ella proves her greatness by finding something new in such old favorites as Night and Day, I Love Paris and I Get A Kick Out Of You. And as if that wasn’t enough, Bregman’s orchestra sounds absolutely splendid.

The first of the celebrated songbooks recorded by Ella and one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, the Cole Porter Songbook was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, which honors recordings that have qualitative or historical significance.

The combination of Ella and Porter is irresistible and whether up-tempo or down-tempo, Ella's three-octave range soars effortlessly as she makes each song come to life. All helped by the cream of L.A. session men and Buddy Bregman's arrangement that ooze sophistication, sophistication that is way beyond his years. It is a perfect record. The record was completed after four separate days of recording on March 27.

The thirty-two tracks, Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, came out on May 15, 1956 as a double album. By July it had made No. 15 on the Billboard Best Sellers list after Verve had taken an extensive advertising campaign in Esquire, The New Yorker, High Fidelity and a dozen Sunday newspapers across America. In September Ella was the headliner on the annual Jazz at the Philharmonic autumn tour of America. By the end of the year the double LP was No. 18 on the list of Best Sellers for the whole year, one that was dominated by soundtrack albums.

Ella's performances here and on the other songbooks she did in the series have proven to be so brilliant and by the same token so important. And it should not go unmentioned what a clever idea it was by Granz to create the songbook series of recordings with his most prized asset on Verve Records. It was an idea he tried out with Oscar Peterson on Clef records, one of Granz's labels before he started Verve. It may have been an old idea thought of again, but it is a brilliant concept, one that the entire record industry has replicated many times since.

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A:
1. All Through The Night
2. Anything Goes
3. Miss Otis Regrets
4. Too Darn Hot
5. In The Still Of The Night

Lado B:
1. I Get A Kick Out Of You
2. Do I Love You
3. Always True To You In My Fashion
4. Let's Do It
5. Just One Of Those Things

Lado C:
1. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
2. All Of You
3. Begin The Beguine
4. Get Out Of Town
5. I Am In Love
6. From This Moment On

Lado D:
1. I Love Paris
2. You Do Something To Me
3. Ridin' High
4. Easy To Love
5. It's All Right With Me

Lado E:
1. Why Can't You Behave
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. You're The Top
4. Love For Sale
5. It's Delovely

Lado F:
1. Night And Day
2. Ace In The Hole
3. So In Love
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. I Concentrate On You
6. Don't Fence Me In

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