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| "Jazz Album of the Year" - Time Magazine. Monumental deluxe set of Ella's salutes to Cole Porter, The Gershwins, Duke Ellington & others. |
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| 1 All Through the Night |
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| 2 Anything Goes |
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| 3 Miss Otis Regrets |
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| 4 Too Darn Hot |
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| 5 In the Still of the Night |
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| 6 I Get a Kick Out of You |
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| 7 Do I Love You? |
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| 8 Always True to You in My Fashion |
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| 9 Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) |
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| 10 Just One of Those Things |
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| 11 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye |
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| 12 All of You |
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| 13 Begin the Beguine |
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| 14 Get Out of Town |
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| 15 I Am in Love |
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| 16 From This Moment On |
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| 17 I Love Paris |
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| 18 You Do Something to Me |
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| 19 Ridin' High |
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| 20 Easy to Love |
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| 21 It's All Right With Me |
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| 22 Why Can't You Behave? |
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| 23 What Is This Thing Called Love? |
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| 24 You're the Top |
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| 25 Love for Sale |
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Album Review
With her signing to Verve in 1956, Ella Fitzgerald (under producer Norman Granz's guidance) began a series of "Songbook" projects in which the singer (backed by orchestras) performed the works of various major composers. Her "Cole Porter Songbook" was so well-received that it was followed by ones featuring the music of Rodgers & Hart, Duke Ellington (half of which featured his band), Irving Berlin, a massive salute to George & Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. This 16-CD box set is not for everyone (due to its cost) and is not the most jazz-oriented of Ella Fitzgerald's recordings (she does not scat much and some of the string arrangements weigh the music down a little), but her voice is in peak form and this was a very classy (and extensive) project. The reissue (which uses miniature reproductions of the original LPs along with a definitive book, all placed in a red box) is a gem, perfectly done. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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