Ella+fitzgerald

Hello Love is the 1959 album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. This is a CD released by Verve Music Group on 28 September 2004, remastered by Hideaki Nishimura.

Released in 1961, this volume in Ella Fitzgerald's essential Songbook series spotlights composer Harold Arlen and features such beloved classics as "Over The Rainbow", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" and "That Old Black Magic", arranged and conducted by Billy May and produced by Norman Granz.

Released in 1958, "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook" features arrangements by Paul Weston. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for ALbum of the Year at the inaugural Grammy Awards. Fitzgerald won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.

Ella Fitzgerald is backed by Marty Paich's Dek-tette on this Grammy-winning 1958 recording of swinging jazz standards. The album features a typical selection of jazz standards from this era, songs from musicals like Frank Loesser's "If I Were a Bell", and a famous jazz instrumental vocalised by Ella, Roy Eldridge's "Little Jazz". This was among several hit albums that Fitzgerald enjoyed in the '50s, when she was reaching the mass audience cutting pre-rock standards.

Recorded in 1957, „Ella And Louis Again“ re-teams Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong after the success of their first album and a popular series of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl the previous year. This is not a mere retread, however, and if anything, „Ella And Louis Again“ is the stronger of the two records. Fitzgerald shines particularly brightly, singing with sassy confidence throughout, as if goosed by Pops' infectious good humor. The backing quartet, led by the great Oscar Peterson on piano and featuring guitarist Herb Ellis, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson, is up to the challenge of playing with these two magnificent singers.

Ella Fitzgerald « Ella, elle l'a, Ce je n'sais quoi, Que d'autres n'ont pas, Qui nous met dans un drôle d'état… » chantait France Gall en 1987, en hommage à celle que le métier du jazz aux Etats-Unis a surnommé « The First Lady Of Song », la première dame de la chanson, et a récompensé de 13 Grammy Awards. Ella, aux côtés de Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, est considérée comme la plus grande chanteuse de jazz. Sa virtuosité, son swing, sa tessiture couvrant pas moins de trois octaves, son charisme, n’ont jamais été égalés. Certains considèrent même qu’elle a magnifié le scat au point que personne n’a pu, depuis, lui venir à la cheville. Ella Fitzgerald, auprès des Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, a porté l’art du jazz si haut qu’il ne peut, après elle, qu’être différent et partir dans une autre direction.