Everybody loves Cole Porter. But most jazz musicians really love Cole Porter. Singers love his lyrics, which contain great wit, amazing rhymes and beautiful imagery. Instrumentalists love his elegant ...
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Songbook (Ella sings: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) [Vinyl Schallplatte] [5 LP Box ...
She wasn’t a beauty, like Lena Horne. She wasn’t sensuous, like Eartha Kitt, or homely, like Peggy Lee. ‘When a girl comes up and looks like me,’ she once said, ‘she just can’t get a chance.’ But Ella ...
His satiny style seduced a generation. She was billed as the First Lady of Song. Together, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald wrote chapters in the Great American Songbook about which we still marvel.
Ella Fitzgerald’s most enduring legacy is the celebrated songbook cycle of albums she made for Norman Granz’s Verve label, beginning in 1956 with “The Cole Porter Songbook.” Even almost a half-century ...
Many estimable performances of Cole Porter’s work have resurfaced on compact disc and, in some cases, cassette. Here’s just a sampling: The best place to start is with what even Porter considered the ...
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