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| 1. | Hey Jude
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| 2. | Sunshine Of Your Love
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| 3. | This Girl's In Love With You
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| 4. | Watch What Happens
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| 5. | Alright OK You Win
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| 6. | Give Me The Simple Life
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| 7. | Useless Landscape
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| 8. | Old Devil Moon
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| 9. | Don't Cha Go 'way Mad
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| 10. | House Is Not A Home
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| 11. | Trouble Is A Man
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| 12. | I Love You Madly
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Jazz
Recorded by Wally Heider in San Francisco in October, 1968
Ella Fitzgerald Vocal
Tommy Flanagan Piano, Conductor
Frank De la Rosa Bass
Ed Thigpen Drums
Yes, the title refers to the Cream song. If the idea of Ella Fitzgerald covering a Jack Bruce-Peter Brown classic unnerves you in any way, perhaps it's best to steer clear of thisalbum, before you learn of her version of "Hey Jude". But the results are nowhere near as dire as most pop crossover albums by jazz artists. For one thing, Ella Fitzgerald is the consummate jazz singer, one who could sing the phone book with conviction, humor and grace. More importantly, she's a true professional who recognises that a good song is a good song, and so she doesn't treat the rock material with the condescending disrespect a lot of her contemporaries brought to similar albums. The results are surprisingly wonderful. Besides the two tracks mentioned above, Fitzgerald works wonderswith "Alright, Okay, You Win", "Useless Landscape", and even the Doors' fairly dire "Love Her Madly".
One side of this album is devoted to the permanent trio, led by Tommy Flanagan, that accompanies Ella on her forays throughout the world. Flanagan is not only the best pianist around for accompanying singers, but is in his own right a great soloist, certainly among the top half-dozen jazz pianists. This, I might add, is not only my opinion, but also the judgment of musicians who have worked with him. The rest of the trio consists of Ed Thigpen on drums, who for years was with the Oscar Peterson Trio, and a very promising newcomer from the West Coast, Frank de la Rosa, on bass.
The big band charts have Ella accompanied by a band, the nucleus of which is the Ernie Heckscher Band, and Heckscher, who is a fixture at the Fairmont Hotel's Venetian Room is just about the best orchestra of that genre around. The orchestra was augmented by a fabulous lead trumpet player, Allen Smith, and the rhythm section remained the Tommy Flanagan Trio.
---Norman Granz, from the liner notes to Sunshine of Your Love
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