[Dixielandjazz] Ella Review

[Robert Ringwald]

Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-oSelect.com/Verve)
by Karl Stark
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 2009

You get the gift of Ella Fitzgerald live on these four discs caught at the Crescendo
club in Hollywood in 1961 and 1962. Despite the less than perfect recording -- guitarist
Herb Ellis is often hard to hear -- the 77 cuts provide a sonic torrent of Fitzgerald's
peerless scatting, musicianship, and humor. Her imitations of singers from Louis
Armstrong to Dinah Washington are funny and fabulous. And she works so hard, singing
melodies and solos for hour after hour. Fitzgerald, then 44 and 45, often sounds
world-weary. But the set captures an amazing artist in the moment. (4 CDs, $69.98.)


--Bob Ringwald K6YBV
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