Ella & Basie [Original recording remastered]

Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000047G4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,890 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #91 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Classic Big Band
  • #94 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Classic Vocalists

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The album that made me a jazz fan, October 20, 1999

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Robert James (Culver City, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ella & Basie (Audio CD)

This vocal album broke forever my obsession with any music recorded after 1965. The year after I graduated high school, I was given this as a gift by a friend, and I looked at the cover and thought: "Where can I exchange this for something good?" Fortunately, I opened it, played it, and lost my mind for the next month. A hot, swinging session, full of intense emotion, gleeful play, and ravishing talent. I have been in love with Ella ever since; I own almost all of her recordings; I named my daughter after her. If that doesn't convince you to buy this classic, I have wasted my time writing this.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT STUFF!!!!, September 8, 1999

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Darrren12000 "Darren" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ella & Basie (Audio CD)

THIS IS A WONDERFUL ALBUM. A LOT OF ELLA'S MUSIC HAS HER WITH LUSH ACCOMPANYMENT -- STRINGS, ET AL. THIS ALBUM HAS HER WITH THE SWINGING BASIE ORCHESTRA, AND, TRUE TO FORM, BASIE IS ON FIRE!!! HE BRINGS OUT THE SOULFUL ELLA AND I'M SURE SHE STIMULATED THE BAND AS WELL. A MUST HAVE FOR FANS OF GOOD MUSIC -- JAZZ OR OTHERWISE.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Lovers of Swing, July 10, 2003

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Ori Dagan (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ella & Basie (Audio CD)

Absolultely priceless. Ella was always impressive when she had someone to impress, as her collaborations with Satch, Duke, and Louis Jordan prove. This 1963 studio date is certainly a winner. The scat exchange on "Honeysuckle Rose" shows that Ella is in a playful mood. Her phrasing throughout the album is inventive and she eloquently re-melodicizes classic standards like "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street". "Tea for Two" is a lesson in sweet sincerity. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" makes Mama Cass actually seem mediocre and once you hear Ella and Basie do "Deed I Do" it is likely no other version will ever satisfy. Basically (or Basie-cally) the entire album is like a big advertisement for the glory days of swing. God Bless Norman Granz.