Ella Fitzgerald: An Annotated Discography; Including a Complete Discography of Chick Webb [Hardcover]

J. Wilfred Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2000

Ella Fitzgerald is fondly remembered as America's "First Lady of Song." She sang Dixieland, swing, blues and wonderful Broadway show tunes by the likes of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. She was one of America's greatest jazz singers and has left a memorable and highly listenable legacy of recorded songs. This volume is a complete discography of Ella Fitzgerald's music from her first recording with Chick Webb and His Orchestra to her last recorded soundtrack for the motion picture film The Setting Sun. Part One includes a chronological listing of all known recorded performances of both Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald; Part Two gives the complete contents of Ella's LPs and CDs, including track listings, titles (with lyricists and composers) and timings; Part Three is an alphabetical listing of all songs contained on all of Ella's records. Reviews of the movies in which Ella appeared and surveys of her career with the Decca, Verve and Pablo music companies are included. The book also has an index of album and CD recordings, and alphabetical references to composers, lyricists, and musicians.

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A comprehensive survey that includes a chronological listing of all known recorded performances of both Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb (with whom Fitzgerald began her recording career in 1935); complete contents of LPs and CDs; and an annotated index of all of Fitzgerald's recorded songs. RBB
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 358 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub (September 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786409061
• ISBN-13: 978-0786409068
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,576,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Ella Fitzgerald: An Annotated Discography; Including a Complete Discography of Chick Webb (Hardcover)

This is an extraordinarily thorough yet easily accessible survey of one of the world's most exhaustive recording careers. Aside from a few maddening typos (typical of all such books) you could not ask for a better-crafted discography. Perhaps an updated edition could include thumbnail images of the artwork -- at $[price] a pop, that seems like a reasonable request. Otherwise, this is essentially just a database that could be shifted to the web.