Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Mister Kelly's 1958 [2CD Set] (2007) [Remastered 2017]
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Title: Live at Mister Kelly's 1958
Year Of Release: 2007/2017
Label: Essential Jazz Classics [EJC55721]
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans) / WAV (tracks, scans)
Total Time: 2:12:23
Total Size: 429 mb / 704 mb / 1.42 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Live at Mister Kelly's 1958
Year Of Release: 2007/2017
Label: Essential Jazz Classics [EJC55721]
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans) / WAV (tracks, scans)
Total Time: 2:12:23
Total Size: 429 mb / 704 mb / 1.42 gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Ella Fitzgerald didn't lack for live recording opportunities in the late '50s, which on the surface, would make this first issue of a 1958 Chicago live club date an easy one to pass on. Verve label head Norman Granz recorded her often in the '50s with an eye to releasing live albums, which he did with her shows at Newport in 1957 and Los Angeles' Opera House in 1958 (not to mention another 1958 concert in Rome that was released 30 years later to wide acclaim).
Those shows, however, differed widely from this one, which found her in front of a very small audience at Chicago's jazz Mecca Mister Kelly's (Sarah Vaughan's landmark At Mister Kelly's was recorded there four months earlier). Fitzgerald's artistry is basically a given in this situation, but much of the material recorded here was rare and obscure; "Your Red Wagon" had only been released as a single, her delightfully melodic "Across the Alley from the Alamo" never appeared elsewhere, and for a pair of Sinatra evergreens -- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Witchcraft" -- the former had never appeared, and the latter only appeared later, on a 1961 return to the site of her Berlin live landmark.
Those shows, however, differed widely from this one, which found her in front of a very small audience at Chicago's jazz Mecca Mister Kelly's (Sarah Vaughan's landmark At Mister Kelly's was recorded there four months earlier). Fitzgerald's artistry is basically a given in this situation, but much of the material recorded here was rare and obscure; "Your Red Wagon" had only been released as a single, her delightfully melodic "Across the Alley from the Alamo" never appeared elsewhere, and for a pair of Sinatra evergreens -- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Witchcraft" -- the former had never appeared, and the latter only appeared later, on a 1961 return to the site of her Berlin live landmark.
:: TRACKLIST ::
1-1 Your Red Wagon 2:59
1-2 Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:35
1-3 I'm Glad There Is You 2:53
1-4 How Long Has This Been Going On 2:44
1-5 Across The Alley From The Alamo 2:14
1-6 Perdido 5:45
1-7 The Lady Is A Tramp 3:01
1-8 Bewitched 5:48
1-9 Summertime 5:01
1-10 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 3:55
1-11 St.Louis Blues 6:13
1-12 Witchcraft 2:57
1-13 Love Me Or Leave Me 3:48
1-14 Joe William's Blues 5:57
1-15 Porgy And Bess Medley: I Loves You Porgy/Porgy, I's Your Woman Now (Bess You Is My Woman Now) 5:48
1-16 How High The Moon 6:56
2-1 Announcement 1:54
2-2 Exactly Like You 7:37
2-3 Come Rain Or Come Shine 4:29
2-4 Stardust 6:15
2-5 S'Wonderful 1:36
2-6 You Don't Know What Love Is 3:38
2-7 Witchcraft 2:51
2-8 Perdido 6:30
2-9 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 4:04
2-10 My Funny Valentine 3:05
2-11 Anything Goes 2:10
Bonus Tracks
2-12 Introduction By John McLellan 1:40
2-13 Why Don't You Do Right ? 5:04
2-14 Mean To Me 3:14
2-15 Closing Announcement 0:52
2-16 I Can't Get Started 3:47
2-17 Later 2:43
2-18 That Old Black Magic 2:04
Vocals – Ella Fitzgerald
Bass – Jimmy Woode (tracks: 2-12 to 2-15), Max Bennett (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11), Ray Brown (tracks: 2-17, 2-18)
Drums – Gus Johnson (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11), Jo Jones (tracks: 2-12 to 2-15)
Guitar – Herb Ellis (tracks: 2-17, 2-18)
Piano – Hank Jones (tracks: 2-12 to 2-15), Lou Levy (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11), Raymond Tunia (tracks: 2-17, 2-18)
Recorded at Mister Kelly's, Chicago, IL; Sunday, August 10, 1958 (1-1 to 2-11)
Recorded at Storyville Club, Boston, February 7, 1953 (2-12 to 2-15)
Recorded at Apollo Theater, New York, fall 1954 (2-16)
Recorded at Basin Street, New York, August 3 or 7, 1955 (2-17, 2-18)
