TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6003
Ella Fitzgerald Album Rankings
1
This attractive two-CD set, released to celebrate Fitzgerald's 75th birthday, is a perfect greatest-hits collection spanning the first half of her very productive career.
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2
The second of Ella Fitzgerald's famedSongbookseries features her singing 34 of the best songs co-written byRichard RodgersandLorenz Hart.
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3
With her signing to Verve in 1956, Ella Fitzgerald (under producerNorman Granz's guidance) began a series ofSongbookprojects in which the singer (backed by orchestras) performed the works of various m
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4
Ella Fitzgerald was at the peak of her form during her 1960 tour of Europe.
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5
Ella Fitzgerald recorded so much, and so much of what she recorded was so good, that the notion of one album summing her up is all but ludicrous.
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6
Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbookis an extraordinary three-disc set that collects various versions ofGershwinsongs Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Verve.
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7
It is difficult to know where to begin when approaching an artist as wonderful as Ella Fitzgerald, especially when covering a revered recording likeSings the Irving Berlin Song Bookfrom the late '50s.
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8
A striking two-CD set featuring arguably history's finest jazz singer singing some of the best-written American pop standards on one of jazz's most prolific labels.
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9
Looking for something a little different when shopping for Christmasmusic? Then you might want to tryElla Wishes You A Swinging Christmas, and add a little hot jazz to your festivities.
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10
By 1963, Ella Fitzgerald'sSongbookseries had almost run its course and was becoming much less ambitious in scope.
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11
Are you one of those people who can't walk through the jazz section without mooning over the lavishly packaged and heart-droppingly expensive 16-discComplete Ella Fitzgerald Song Booksset? If so, you'
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12
For those who cannot afford to slurge on the entire epic 16-CD box of the completeSongbooks-- and I suspect that means most of us -- here's a formidable alternate, up to a point.
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13
Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgeraldis an excellent 18-track collection that features many of her best recordings, which also happen to be among her most popular, including "A-Tisket, a-Tasket,
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14
This is a most unusual Ella Fitzgerald recording, reissued on CD by Verve.
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15
CD reissue featuring Ella Fitzgerald's flowing vocals andMarty Paich's Dek-tette band backing her.
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16
Recorded during the period of time when Ella Fitzgerald cut her famous series of "songbooks," this set (which in 1999 was reissued on CD) is a bit of a hodge-podge, drawing its 14 selections from six
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17
I like coffee. And I like music. It’s just that I tend to get a little suspicious when the two are being sold side-by-side in the world’s largest chain of retail coffee outlets.
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18
Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald is an excellent 18-track collection that features many of her best recordings, which also happen to be among her most popular, including "A Tisket, A Taske
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27
More pop Ella with arrangements by Frank DeVol and intermittent appearances by the maestro of mellow, Stan Getz .
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29
This 16-track collection features Ella Fitzgerald in a variety of musical settings singing romantic songs of love.
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47
Part of a Fantasy sampler series that features musicians (and in this case a notable vocalist) performing the blues, this CD features Ella Fitzgerald on 11 performances taken from a variety of sessio
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54
During her long career, every once in awhile Ella Fitzgerald would attempt to "get with it" and record contemporary pop tunes.
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56
This 1968 hit album represented a change in style after her switch to the Capitol. It was re-released in 1978 as Ella Fitzgerald Sings Christmas. ~ David A.
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