• INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET

• 4 1/2 stars all music guide

INCLUDES NEW SPECIALLY PREPARED LINER NOTES BY PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ'S WRITER BRIAN MORTON AND BY PARI'S PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ MAGAZINE

“Fitzgerald was sometimes considered a poor “libretto” singer, more interested in swing and harmony than in the emotional weight of a song. That was generally left to singers like Billie Holiday preeminently, or Carmen McRae and Betty Carter. But with Porter, she was dealing with an artist whose rhythmic sophistication equalled her own and these songs in which rhyme and reason, music and meaning were pretty much the same thing. There have been misguided attempts to pass off the songs of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley as “America’s classical music”, which is somewhat missing the point. But if the word means anything at all, these performances are classics and among the first great works in the era of the long-playing record.” - PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“Thanks to her producer Norman Granz’s advice, she embraced the music of legendary composer and lyricist Cole Porter for the first of a vast series of records, each of them dedicated to one of the contributors to the inexhaustible pool of popular songs of the Great American Songbook. From then on, Ella began to write a new page of her career, marked by a success the reasons of which are perfectly illustrated on The Essential Cole Porter Songbook.” - JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• ELLA FITZGERALD- vocals on all tracks
• Orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman
• Music & Lyrics by COLE PORTER

Los Angeles, February-March 1956.

TRACKS:

• 01 I LOVE PARIS
• 02 NIGHT AND DAY
• 03 LOVE FOR SALE
• 04 BEGIN THE BEGUINE
• 05 ALL OF YOU
• 06 EASY TO LOVE
• 07 I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
• 08 I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU
• 09 SO IN LOVE
• 10 WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
• 11 YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME
• 12 GET OUT OF TOWN
• 13 IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
• 14 ANYTHING GOES
• 15 MISS OTIS REGRETS
• 16 TOO DARN HOT
• 17 JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
• 18 FROM THIS MOMENT ON
• 19 RIDIN’ HIGH
• 20 YOU’RE THE TOP
• 21 IT’S ALL RIGHT WITH ME
• 22 EV’RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

• TOTAL TIME: 76:22 min.