Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald Vocal
Louis Armstrong Trumpet, Vocal
Louis Jordan Alto Saxophone
The Delta Rhythm Boys Vocal
The Ink Spots Vocal
The Mills Brothers Vocal
Dave Barbour Conductor
For almost 20 years to the day, dear old Decca was the recording home to the greatest female popular singing voice of the century. Reams have been written about the discography of Ella Fitzgerald, and much of it has centered around her live albums and famous Songbook series. The truth of the matter is that the sound the world knows as ELLA was originated, honed and fine-tuned in an impressive body of work recorded from 1935-1955 at Decca.
It was inevitable that Decca would try to pair Ella with other artists on their roster to see if they could mine for recording gold. While they missed some of the more obvious couplings like Count Basie (because of contractual differences), or Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes or Judy Garland (because of the backward ideas of mixing races even on record at that time), there were some real gems put to wax. |
