Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie – On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie – On The Sunny Side Of The Street
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Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie – On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie – On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie – On The Sunny Side Of The Street

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Rarity - Sealed

Ella Fitzgerald, vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ella Fitzgerald]

The Count Basie Orchestra:

  • Count Basie – piano, organ, vocals (A5) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Count Basie]
  • Sonny Cohn, Al Aarons, Joe Newman, Don Rader – trumpet
  • Eric Dixon – flute, tenor saxophone
  • Frank Foster, Frank Wess – flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green – guitar
  • Benny Powell, Urbie Green, Henry Coker, Grover Mitchell – trombone
  • Flip Ricard – trombone, trumpet
  • Marshal Royal – clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Buddy Catlett – double bass
  • Sonny Payne – drums

Arranged by Quincy Jones

Written by Duke Ellington (B1-2), Ella Fitzgerald (B3), Andy Razaf (A1), Fats Waller (A1), Walter Hirsch (A2), Fred Rose (A2), Doris Fisher (A3), Allan Roberts (A3), Maceo Pinkard (A4), Doris Tauber (A4), William Tracey (A4), Fabian Andre (A5), Gus Kahn (A5), Wilbur Schwandt (A5), Irving Caesar (A6), Vincent Youmans (A6), Johnny Mercer (B1), Billy Strayhorn (B1), Don George (B2), Johnny Hodges (B2), Harry James (B2), Frank Foster (B3), Haven Johnson (B4), Harry Brooks (B5), Razaf, Waller (B5), Dorothy Fields (B6), Jimmy McHugh (B6)

 

 

1 LP, Standard Sleeve

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g Virgin Vinyl

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : Pallas

Label : Speakers Corner

Original Label : Verve

Recorded July 15–16, 1963 at A & R Studio, New York

Produced by Norman Granz

Liner Notes by Norman Granz

Originally released in September 1963

Reissued in April 1996

 

 

Tracks :

Side A:

  1. Honeysuckle Rose
  2. 'Deed I Do
  3. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
  4. Them There Eyes
  5. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  6. Tea For Two

Side B:

  1. Satin Doll
  2. I'm Beginning To See The Light
  3. Shiny Stockings
  4. My Last Affair
  5. Ain't Misbehavin'
  6. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

 

 

Reviews :

"In July 1963, singer Ella Fitzgerald and pianist Count Basie's orchestra entered the studio for their first full-length recording session as a collective. They produced a gem for both veteran jazz fans and novices. The album features both artists in top swinging form and it is concise enough to serve as an introduction to those just beginning to explore the Basie or Fitzgerald catalogs.

Ella and Basie! presents the band in the role of accompanist and the group performs its task with the utmost gusto and musicality. Quincy Jones' crisp arrangements don't give individual musicians many soloing opportunities. Rather, they call for precise dynamic shifts and delicate interplay between reeds and brass, highlighting some of the musical areas over which the Basie band reigned supreme. The ensemble drops from a screaming forte to a simmering piano with ease on tunes such as the melancholy "Satin Doll" and jumping "Tea for Two." A classic rhythm section of guitarist Freddie Green, bassist Buddy Catlett, drummer Sonny Payne and Basie himself heighten the energy of the band by remaining laid back yet explosive—the latter being a consequence of Payne's work behind the kit—throughout the album, which consists of a collection of down-to-mid tempo standards.

Fitzgerald, in her prime on this recording, contributes to the sense of excitement by interspersing brief snippets of scatting with boldly sung lyrics. On "Honeysuckle Rose," the album's opener and most energetic tune, she takes her longest "solo," a playful, relatively uncomplicated endeavor, intertwining with Basie's sparse comping, that transitions smoothly into a sax solo and an infectious shout-chorus finale. On "Them There Eyes," Fitzgerald trades melodies with trumpeter Joe Newman to an obviously arranged but nevertheless swinging affect.

In contrast to her performance on the album's more fiery tracks, Fitzgerald has the opportunity to croon on the ballad "Dream a Little Dream of Me," which features Basie on organ as well as a short lyrical trombone solo by Benny Powell. Similarly, she takes up a more subdued and forlorn tone on "My Last Affair".

Other high points of the album include a well developed arrangement of "Shiny Stockings" and a dirty shuffle, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street".

While Ella and Basie! doesn't individually showcase the many talented musicians in the Count Basie Orchestra, it provides an example of a singer and a band at their most refined levels of musicianship. None of the songs are long or venture into the abstract; this album is jazz in its most primal form.” All About Jazz Review by Thomas Carroll

 

 

Rating:

Discogs : 4.23 / 5

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