Ella Live

France Gall sur scène, c'est certes la musique et les paroles de Michel Berger, mais c'est aussi et surtout une voix, UNE ENERGIE au service de LA musique. Même si les fans ne trouveront là aucun inédit, par rapport à l'intégrale sortie en 2004, et s'il y a parmi les titres quelques grands absents ( bébé comme la vie, Hong Kong star, Besoin d'amour et quelque chose de Tennessee pourtant chantée à Pleyel en 1994, les uns contre les autres et la légende de Jimmy de l'Olympia 1996) qui auraient pu être intégrés puisque 6 titres reviennent deux fois (la déclaration, diégo, musique, viens je t'emmène, tout pour la musique et Ella - même si ce dernier est dans une interprétation tellement différente que sa deuxième utilisation se justifie).

Ella Swings Lightly was recorded in 1958 and features the Marty Paich Dektette. The songs whilst including a number of very well known standards eg " Little White Lies"; "As Long as I Live"; "Blues in the Night" etc also has less main stream standards and many of these bring to the listener Ella's ability to "scat", vocal improvisation which gives singers the ability to sing improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice…

Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.
Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella).
This album is a great demonstration of this, the swing in the fullest sense demonstration.

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…

"The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was arguably the finest female jazz singer of all time (although some may vote for Sarah Vaughan or Billie Holiday). Blessed with a beautiful voice and a wide range, Fitzgerald could outswing anyone, was a brilliant scat singer, and had near-perfect elocution; one could always understand the words she sang…

After an auspicious beginning with the Chick Webb band and long solo run featuring a celebrated string of songbook albums on Verve (Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, etc.), Ella Fitzgerald maintained her high profile from the mid-'60s onward, mostly by touring the world and - to a lesser extent - recording a series of enjoyable dates for Pablo. This informal-sounding, never before released Stockholm concert recording from 1966 shows why Fitzgerald as primarily a live performer is not such a bad thing. Backed by Duke Ellington's orchestra and her own trio of pianist Jimmy Jones, bassist Joe Comfort, and drummer Gus Johnson, she shows off her incredible interpretive skills on a mix of standards heavy with Ellington and Strayhorn classics…