Jazz

Released in 1956 as the first album on the newly established Verve label, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book inaugurated her Song Book series and marked the beginning of her extended focus on composers associated with the Great American Songbook. Produced by...

Recorded in 1967 as her second album for Capitol Records, Ella's focus solely on sacred hymns was quite the juxtaposition from her "Swinging Christmas" album on Verve earlier in the decade. Working with conductor Ralph Carmichael and his orchestra, Fitzgerald faithfully takes on classics...

Fitzgerald, Ella

ELLA WISHES YOU A SWING(LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. Experience the ultimate holiday collection from the First Lady of Song! This expanded edition of Ella Fitzgerald's classic 1960 album, Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas, features a second LP with six tracks making their vinyl debut. For the first...

Great Women of Song: Ella Fitzgerald

Great Women of Song: Ella Fitzgerald (Vinyl)

Ella Fitzgerald began her glorious association with the newly formed Verve label in 1956, and her Verve album debut `Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book,' bankrolled the label's initial success. Singles taken from that album turned out to be big hits, as...

Considered one of Ella's greatest recordings, she's backed on this 1960 release by pianist Paul Smith. Let No Man Write My Epitaph was a 1960 Hollywood movie featuring Fitzgerald. The album hits at a rare depth of emotional understanding and once again establishes Fitzgerald...

Live At Montreux 1969

Ella Fitzgerald

had achieved much by the time she signed to the newly createdVerve Records in 1956, but it was the genius of Norman Granz,her personal manager and Verve founder, in suggesting shetackle the material of great contemporary composers in themedalbums that sent her career into...

The Great American Song Book series began with Cole Porter and continued with great stage writers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The combination of top-class material with Ella’s unique vocal skills proved irresistible, and the fruits of her next exploration were eagerly awaited. The...

Ella Fitzgerald -"Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)" The second of her celebrated song book albums and heralded as one of the best vocal jazz albums ever made, Ella and arranger/conductor Buddy Bregman began work on the Rodgers and...

Ella Fitzgerald virtually invented the live album. Her performances were so consistently great that almost any live show was special enough to release as a record. For Ella Fitzgerald, every night was The Moment of Truth. In the summer of 1967, Ella Fitzgerald was...

SKU: NOT3CD337 Categories: 3CD, Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Not Now Music Disc 11. Can’t We Be Friends 2. Isn’t This A Lovely Day 3. Moonlight In Vermont 4. They Can’t Take That Away From Me 5. Under A Blanket Of Blue 6. Tenderly...

Ellen Doty is a soulful Canadian vocalist and songwriter with a world-class voice. Her music incorporates everything from pop and jazz to soul, folk, and indie music: a sound that is uniquely hers. A true storyteller whose works are as intimate and as personal...

After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings—Puttin’ It Together and...

Elvin Jones' 1968 Blue Note debut Puttin' It Together marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer's career following his 6 years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet & Coltrane's death in 1967. The spare trio album found Jones engaged in...

A thrilling, previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known NYC club where he had a weekly residency after leaving John Coltrane's band in the late 1960s. Featuring Joe Farrell on tenor...

Award-winning jazz artist Pureum Jin brings together a group of up and rising female saxophonists and NYC's most sought-after rhythm trioAward-winning jazz artist Pureum Jin brings together a group of up and rising female saxophonists and NYC's most sought-after rhythm trio for a full...

Enrico Rava, the doyen of Italian jazz, joined forces with masterful US tenorist Joe Lovano for a brief tour in November 2018. On this album, recorded live in Rome, the two masters lead a spirited quintet that includes lyrical pianist Giovanni Guidi, dynamic drummer...

Eric Alexander - Like Sugar - Boasting a warm, finely burnished tone and a robust melodic and harmonic imagination, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander has been exploring new musical worlds from the outset. On his new album for Cellar Music, Alexander has chosen to make...

Vinyl LP pressing. In February 1964, Eric Dolphy assembled a quintet of modern jazz visionaries with Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone, Richard Davis - bass, & Tony Williams - drums, & headed into Rudy Van Gelder's studio to record what would...

Birmingham is Eric Essix's best recording to date, and it's no wonder. The album was produced by industry stalwart Kelvin Wooten (Mary J. Blige, The Isley Brothers, Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, and many more). This album also marks the guitarist's third album with major...

Erik Truffaz is one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation. A prime world jazz reference, his style is often compared to that of Miles Davis; his music is driven by fusion and sonic discovery. With 'Rollin', Truffaz revisits and add his unique...

1940-1953 Essential Works is an album by Erroll Garner, released in 2020. The album is a jazz 2-LP.

Erwan Keravec - In C // 20 Sonneurs / It does, however, offer an unusual interpretation by 20 pipers of IN C (Terry Riley) as a thrilling field of play / IN C (1964) consists of 53 ordered patterns. The musicians repeat them at...

Celebrating the 10th-anniversary of Esperanza Spalding's GRAMMY-winning 4th album, Radio Music Society, comes this 2 LP edition on 180-gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket. Featuring the singles "Black Gold" and "Radio Song," the album earned Spalding her second GRAMMY Award (Best Vocal Album) and...

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson heads his own quartet in a program of standards and blues, recorded live at Manhattan's famed Village Vanguard. Tom Harrell whom Iverson extols for his quality of poetic "vulnerability" provides the prime melodic voice but the album courses...

ETHAN IVERSON - Technically Acceptable - BLUE NOTE RECORDS / Pianist and composer Ethan Iverson follows-up his 2022 Blue Note debut Every Note Is True with Technically Acceptable, a far-ranging new project that presents two different trios-Thomas Morgan/Kush Abadey and Sim?n Willson/Vinnie Sperrazza-performing a...