Love for Sale (Ella Fitzgerald)

Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 · Version de près de six minutes, la plus longue du double album

Context

Cole Porter theme about prostitution, here one of the longest tracks on the double album (5 min 52 sec). Ella Fitzgerald recorded it in Hollywood in February-March 1956 for Verve, conducted by Buddy Bregman and produced by Norman Granz, on the double album devoted to Cole Porter.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Miss Otis Regrets (1956)
• Too Darn Hot (1956)
• Begin the Beguine (Ella Fitzgerald) (1956)
• Mack the Knife (Berlin, 1960) (1960)
• How High the Moon (1947)
• A-Tisket, A-Tasket (1938)

Sources

• EN: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book

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