Album: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald (1959)
Genre: Pop | Style: Jazz | Mood: Happy
Format: Album

Description: During the late '50s, Ella Fitzgerald continued her Song Book records with Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book, releasing a series of albums featuring 59 songs written by George and Ira Gershwin. Those songs, plus alternate takes, were combined on a four-disc box set, Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book, in 1998. These performances are easily among Fitzgerald's very best, and for any serious fan, this is the ideal place to acquire the recordings, since the sound and presentation are equally classy and impressive.

Artist Background: Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recordin... Part of the Newport News, Virginia, USA music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Related Artists: Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington

Music Scene: Part of the Newport News, Virginia, USA music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Pop, Jazz, Happy, classic, Album

Additional Context: Rating score: 9. Based on 1 votes


During the late '50s, Ella Fitzgerald continued her Song Book records with Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book, releasing a series of albums featuring 59 songs written by George and Ira Gershwin. Those songs, plus alternate takes, were combined on a four-disc box set, Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book, in 1998. These performances are easily among Fitzgerald's very best, and for any serious fan, this is the ideal place to acquire the recordings, since the sound and presentation are equally classy and impressive.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook

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