Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter.

For the first time, all of Ella Fitzgerald’s collaborations with pianists recorded for the Decca, Verve and Pablo labels will be brought together on the album The Complete Piano Duets. The set will be released by Verve Records/UMe on 13 March as a 2CD and digital collection.The double album includes detailed liner notes by the respected author and music critic Will Friedwald, who writes: “Fitzgerald was so great at everything — especially scatting and swinging — that it tended to overshadow her ballad singing. Yet, as any one of the 43 tracks on this collection makes clear, Ella Fitzgerald was a nonpareil singer of love songs, a balladeer par excellence.

This album debuts 24 of Ella Fitzgerald’s classic (as well as lesser known) recordings for the first time in STEREO. Originally recorded in 1 channel monaural, they have been given a fresh new sound, rich in detail, with Ella’s spectacular voice brought forward so you can hear her more clearly. This epic achievement has been made possible by the development of some breakthrough new audio technology called “DES” (Digitally Extracted Stereo). Engineers can now zero in on the frequencies of various instruments and vocals, isolate them, and then extract this sound data from the original mono masters and mix them like a modern, multi-track recording. The result is an exciting listening experience that’s offered nowhere else!

Ella, along with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, is considered the greatest jazz singer. His virtuosity, his swing, his tessitura covering no less than three octaves, his charisma, have never been matched. Some even consider that she has magnified the scat to the point that no one has been able, Since, to come to her ankle. Ella Fitzgerald, with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, has carried the art of jazz so high that after her, he can only be different and go in a different direction.

Recognized worldwide as "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald is arguably the finest female jazz vocalist of all time. Blessed with a highly resonant voice, wide range, and near-perfect elocution, Fitzgerald also possessed a deft sense of swing, and with her brilliant scat technique, could hold her own against any of her instrumental contemporaries. She came to initial popularity as a member of drummer Chick Webb's band in the 1930s, scoring a hit with a "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," before ascending to wide acclaim in the 1940s with Jazz at the Philharmonic and Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band, and issuing landmark performances like "Flying Home" and "How High the Moon."