Ella Fitzgerald Concert Years

Ella Fitzgerald with The Tommy Flanagan Trio - Montreux '77 (1977) [Reissue 1989]

Ella Fitzgerald with The Tommy Flanagan Trio - Montreux '77 (1977) [Reissue 1989]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 251 MB | Covers (9 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Pablo Records (00025218637626)

Ella Fitzgerald, 42 years after her recording debut, showed on this late concert recording that she still had the magic. Backed by pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Keter Betts, and drummer Bobby Durham, she sounds pretty strong at times, mostly singing veteran ballads but also getting hot on "Billie's Bounce."

Ella Fitzgerald - The Concert Years [4CD Box Set] (1994) (Re-up)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 26, 2020
Ella Fitzgerald - The Concert Years [4CD Box Set] (1994) (Re-up)

Ella Fitzgerald - The Concert Years [4CD Box Set] (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 1,74 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 723 MB | Covers - 40 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Pablo Records (4PACD-4414-2)

On this four-CD set are some of Ella Fitzgerald's finest live performances during the years she was managed by Norman Granz. All of the material (which is taken from ten different performances in 1953, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1983) was previously released on various Pablo albums. Since this is a best-of collection and was lovingly put together by the knowledgeable producer Eric Miller, the music is consistently rewarding and emphasizes the interpretive skills, scatting and jazz phrasing of the First Lady of Song. Although mostly backed by her trio/quartets of the period, Ella does get to jam "Perdido" with the 1953 JATP All-Stars, is backed by the Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestras on some songs and revisits "Flying Home" with an all-star group in 1983…
Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall (1973) 2 CD, Japanese Remastered Reissue 1997

Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall (1973) 2 CD, Japanese Remastered 1997
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 758 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 324 Mb | Scans ~ 38 Mb
Vocal Jazz, Standards | Label: Sony Records | # SRCS 9211-2 | Time: 02:22:09

This two-CD set (a reissue of an earlier two-LP set plus six previously unreleased numbers) brings back a memorable Carnegie Hall concert that both features and pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. The great singer is joined on a few numbers by a Chick Webb reunion band that has a few of the original members (plus an uncredited Panama Francis on drums). Although the musicians do not get much solo space (why wasn't trumpeter Taft Jordan featured?), the music is pleasing. Fitzgerald performs three exquisite duets with pianist Ellis Larkins and then sits out while the Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars romp on a few jams and a ballad medley. Trumpeter Roy Eldridge's emotional flights take honors, although tenorman Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and trombonist Al Grey are also in good form. Fitzgerald comes out for the second half of the show and sings 14 numbers with guitarist Joe Pass (including a pair of tender duets) and the Tommy Flanagan trio.
Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Mister Kelly's (With Bonus Tracks) (2007/2017)

Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Mister Kelly's (With Bonus Tracks) (2007/2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 704 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 426 Mb | Covers included | 02:12:22
Vocal Jazz, Swing | Label: Essential Jazz Classics

Ella Fitzgerald didn't lack for live recording opportunities in the late '50s, which on the surface, would make this first issue of a 1958 Chicago live club date an easy one to pass on. Verve label head Norman Granz recorded her often in the '50s with an eye to releasing live albums, which he did with her shows at Newport in 1957 and Los Angeles' Opera House in 1958 (not to mention another 1958 concert in Rome that was released 30 years later to wide acclaim). Those shows, however, differed widely from this one, which found her in front of a very small audience at Chicago's jazz Mecca Mister Kelly's (Sarah Vaughan's landmark At Mister Kelly's was recorded there four months earlier). Fitzgerald's artistry is basically a given in this situation, but much of the material recorded here was rare and obscure; "Your Red Wagon" had only been released as a single, her delightfully melodic "Across the Alley from the Alamo" never appeared elsewhere, and for a pair of Sinatra evergreens – "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Witchcraft" – the former had never appeared, and the latter only appeared later, on a 1961 return to the site of her Berlin live landmark.
Duke Ellington - Live in Europe (Guest Star Ella Fitzgerald) [Recorded 1967] (1994)

Duke Ellington - Live in Europe (Guest Star Ella Fitzgerald) [Recorded 1967] (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 286 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 168 MB | Covers (11 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Big Band, Swing, Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Musica Jazz (MJCD 1099)

Live concert: Rotterdam, January 28, 1967.
Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for long periods…
Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall (1973) [Reissue 2012]

Ella Fitzgerald - La Voix Du Swing - Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall (1973) [Reissue 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 749 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music (88691933652)

This two-CD set brings back a memorable Carnegie Hall concert that both features and pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. The great singer is joined on a few numbers by a Chick Webb reunion band that has a few of the original members (plus an uncredited Panama Francis on drums). Although the musicians do not get much solo space (why wasn't trumpeter Taft Jordan featured?), the music is pleasing. Fitzgerald performs three exquisite duets with pianist Ellis Larkins and then sits out while the Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars romp on a few jams and a ballad medley. Trumpeter Roy Eldridge's emotional flights take honors, although tenorman Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and trombonist Al Grey are also in good form…
Ella Fitzgerald - Live At Mister Kelly's [Recorded 1958] (2007) (Re-up)

Ella Fitzgerald - Live At Mister Kelly's [Recorded 1958] (2007)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 526 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 266 MB | Covers - 67 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517332157)

Ella Fitzgerald didn't lack for live recording opportunities in the late '50s, which on the surface, would make this first issue of a 1958 Chicago live club date an easy one to pass on. Verve label head Norman Granz recorded her often in the '50s with an eye to releasing live albums, which he did with her shows at Newport in 1957 and Los Angeles' Opera House in 1958 (not to mention another 1958 concert in Rome that was released 30 years later to wide acclaim). Those shows, however, differed widely from this one, which found her in front of a very small audience at Chicago's jazz Mecca Mister Kelly's (Sarah Vaughan's landmark At Mister Kelly's was recorded there four months earlier)…
Ella Fitzgerald - At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975) [Reissue 1993] (Re-up)

Ella Fitzgerald - At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975) [Reissue 1993]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 270 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 121 MB | Covers (10 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Pablo Records (OJCCD-789-2 (2310-751))

Although Ella Fitzgerald had been on the jazz scene for over four decades by the time of this 1975 concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, she still knew how to swing and keep the audience in the palm of her hand. Backed by lyrical pianist Tommy Flanagan, the solid bassist Keter Betts and the driving drummer Bobby Durham, the vocalist wows the crowd with a mix of standards, popular jazz compositions and ballads in a way that only she could do it. Even though her voice shows evidence of a little more vibrato on her held notes at the end of a phrase (especially on the ballads), she still emotes like no one else, occasionally adding some playful scat in the up-tempo numbers and captivating the audience with her romp through "How High the Moon," a piece she kept fresh even though she had performed it hundreds of times over the years…
Ella Fitzgerald - The Best Of Twelve Nights In Hollywood (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ella Fitzgerald - The Best Of Twelve Nights In Hollywood (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:53 minutes | 836 MB
Vocal Jazz | Label: RevOla, Official Digital Download

Ella Fitzgerald, in full Ella Jane Fitzgerald, (born April 25, 1917, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.—died June 15, 1996, Beverly Hills, California), American jazz singer who became world famous for the wide range and rare sweetness of her voice. She became an international legend during a career that spanned some six decades.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love (2014/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love (2014/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 45:57 minutes | 980 MB
Vocal Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Sunshine of Your Love is a 1969 live album by Ella Fitzgerald. Recorded at the Venetian Room, The Fairmont San Francisco, in October 1968. The main body of works performed here are contemporary pop songs from the late 1960s. Originally released on the German found jazz label MPS Records the album was re-issued on CD, with alternative artwork, in 1996 by Verve Records.