{"id":23759,"date":"2022-09-21T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23759"},"modified":"2022-09-21T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T11:53:50","slug":"album-review-ella-fitzgerald-ella-at-the-hollywood-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/album-review-ella-fitzgerald-ella-at-the-hollywood-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Ella Fitzgerald \u2013 Ella at the Hollywood Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23760\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ella_fitzgerald_hollywood_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ella_fitzgerald_hollywood_b.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ella_fitzgerald_hollywood_b-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ella_fitzgerald_hollywood_b-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The pros far outweigh the cons on this thrilling set. First, the good news. According to the one-sheet (which I trust), until now there\u2019s never been a live Songbook from Ella Fitzgerald. And this set of songs from classic American composer Irvin Berlin is filled with tunes both well-known (\u201cI\u2019ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm\u201d) and comparatively obscure (\u201cGet Thee Behind Me Satan\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>This recording dates from August 16, 1958, shortly after Fitzgerald released her studio set <i>Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook<\/i>, so it\u2019s a document of the diva onstage in support of that record. Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, it&#8217;s 15 essential tracks. This recording has resided in the private collection of Norman Granz until recently, unheard by the general public. It\u2019s a must-listen for anyone who appreciates vocal jazz.<\/p>\n<p>With those plaudits out of the way, here\u2019s the bad news, and it\u2019s not very bad at all. The sound quality is a bit on the flat\/brittle side, sounding like a good-fidelity recording of a television performance. And beyond the participation of arranger-conductor Paul Weston, there\u2019s no information available regarding the personnel on this date. See? Minor stuff indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully packaged and featuring a superb liner note essay from Will Friedwald, <i>Ella at the Hollywood Bowl<\/i> is an outstanding release. I won\u2019t be surprised to find it on many critics\u2019 year-end best-of lists, and it\u2019s likely to score some awards as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pros far outweigh the cons on this thrilling set. First, the good news. According to the one-sheet (which I trust), until now there\u2019s never been a live Songbook from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49,65],"tags":[4205],"class_list":["post-23759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-ella-fitzgerald","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23782,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23759\/revisions\/23782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}