SINGS THE ESSENTIAL COLE PORTER SONGBOOK/VINYLE JAUNE 180GR

Description

With: Ella Fitzgerald (voice). Orchestra arranged and conducted by Buddy Bregman.
If the ease with which Ella Fitzgerald interprets these timeless songs does not suggest it, this album nonetheless marked a turning point for the singer who, in her own words, had spent her entire career up to that point singing bebop. It was on the advice of her producer Norman Granz that she took on the music of the legendary composer and lyricist Cole Porter for the first of a vast series of records dedicated to the contributors to the inexhaustible pool of popular songs from the Great American Songbook. Ella Fitzgerald then begins to write a new chapter in her career marked by a success that the quality of "The Essential Cole Porter Songbook" perfectly illustrates the reason: supported by an orchestra with a pristine sound and enhanced by tailor-made arrangements, "Ella," astonishing in expressiveness and accuracy in the ballads, elevates the fast pieces with an impeccable phrasing worthy of the greatest instrumentalists.