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Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Title: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
Format: 3xCDReissue
Label: Verve Records
Cat No: 559 248-2
Released: 23 Mar 1999
Country:
Genres: Big BandBopSwingVocal
Condition Mint
Status Have
Added To List 18th March 2026
Disc 1 | CD
Mint
Digisleeve In Slipcase 
A Matrix:
07314 557 540-2 02 /  
B Matrix:
E  
Disc 2 | CD
Mint
Digisleeve In Slipcase 
A Matrix:
557 541-2 01 +  
B Matrix:
B  
Disc 3 | CD
Mint
Digisleeve In Slipcase 
A Matrix:
557 542-02 01 /  
B Matrix:
E  

Additional Information

Comments This release comes in a cardboard slipcase which houses a 4 double sided panel Digisleeve and a 68-page booklet.

A sticker on the shrinkwrap reads: Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington - A new, deluxe 3-CD set "... an artistic success.... An absolute must in any library..." ***** down beat 1958 - Verve Master Edition - Meticulous audio restoration - High-resolution, 20-bit digital transfer - Previously unissued rehearsal sequences, bonus tracks, new liner notes, photographs, original cover art, and more - 559 248-2

[Slipcase back]
This compilation ℗ 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc. © 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc.
Tracks 5-10 and 12-15 On Disc Three Are Previously Unissued
Recorded September 1956 and June, August, September and October 1957
• Meticulous restoration
• High-resolution, 20-bit digital transfer
• Bonus tracks, new liner notes, photographs, original cover art, and more

[Digisleeve back]
℗ 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc. © 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc.

[Booklet]
{Mstr. No & Take}
1-1: 21053-3
1-2: 21038-3
1-3: 21033-6
1-4 Juan Tizol, b. Vincente Martinez: 21064-8
1-5: 21034-6
1-6: 21040-4
1-7: 21049-2
1-8: 21052-2
1-9 Johnny Hodges, b. Cornelius Hodge: 21051-12
1-10: 21039-4
1-11: 21067-4
1-12: 20254-3
1-13: 20256-4
1-14: 20259-2
1-15: 20257-2
1-16: 20253-1
1-17: 20263-3
1-18: 20258-6
2-1: 20255-2
2-2: 20260-1
2-3: 20264-2
2-4: 20252-4
2-5: 20265-5
2-6: 20262-1
2-7: 20261-4
2-8: 21774-6
2-9: 21773-5
2-10: 21775-8
2-11: 21776-11/12
2-12: 21777-9
2-13: 21050-1
2-14: 21063-3
2-15: 21036-6
2-16: 21037-6
2-17: 21065-7
3-1: 21066-8
3-2:
index 1: Ellington Introduction 21557
index 2: First Movement: Royal Ancestry 21380-13
index 3: Ellington Introduction 21557
index 4: Second Movement: All Heart 21381-12
index 5: Ellington Introduction 21557
index 6: Third Movement: Beyond Category 21382-7
index 7: Ellington-Strayhorn Introduction 21557
index 8: Fourth Movement: Total Jazz 21383-4
3-3: 21068-2
3-4:
index 1: Warmup And Discussion
index 2: Breakdown
3-5: Rehearsal Reading
3-6: Complete Rehearsal Reading
3-7:
index 0: Ellington's Revision Of Pickup
index 1: Baker, Then Sanders
index 2: Trombones in Unison
index 3: Into Theme
3-8: Strayhorn Reviews The Voicing
3-9:
index 0: Ellington's Directions
index 1: Breakdown
3-10:
index 0: Ellington's Directions
index 1: From Letter A
index 2: From Second Introduction
index 3: Into Second Bridge
3-11:
index 0: Instructions To Woodyard
index 1: Complete Rehearsal Reading
3-12:
index 0: Assembling The Introduction
index 1: Complete Rehearsal Reading 21381-1
3-13: 21381-3
3-14: 21381-6
3-15: 21381-8

{Recording details}
1-1, 1-7 to 1-9; 2-13: Ray Nance or Harold "Shorty" Baker (tpt). Recorded June 26, 1957 at Fine Recording New York City
1-2, 1-6; 2-15, 2-16: Ray Nance or Harold "Shorty" Baker (tpt). Recorded June 25, 1957 at Fine Recording New York City
1-3, 1-5: Recorded June 24, 1957 at Fine Recording New York City
1-4, 1-11; 2-14, 2-17; 3-3: Harold "Shorty" Baker or Ray Nance (tpt). Recorded June 27, 1957 at Fine Recording New York City
1-10: Clark Terry (tpt and/or cowbell). Recorded June 25, 1957 at Fine Recording New York City
1-12 to 2-7: Recorded September 4, 1956 at Radio Recorders, Hollywood
2-8 to 2-12: Recorded October 17, 1957 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood
3-1, 3-4 to 3-11: Harold "Shorty" Baker or Ray Nance (tpt). Recorded June 27, 1957 in New York City
3-2 (indexes 2, 5, 6, and 8), 3-12 to 3-15: Recorded September 2, 1957 at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago
3-2 (indexes 1, 3, 5, and 7): Bill Strayhorn (p); Duke Ellington (narration). On index 7: Add Ellington (p) and Strayhorn (narration). Recorded October 3. 1957 at Fine Recording, New York City
Disc One, Disc Two and Disc Three, tracks 1-3 original-LP issue: [r=4142588] MGV 4010-4
Disc Three, track 4 and 11 original-CD issue: [m=1578673] 314 519 832-2
Disc Three, tracks 5-10 and 12-15 previously unissued
Disc one, disc two, and tracks -3 of disc three are the original-LP sequence. Master numbers show the order in which the tracks were recorded.

{Reissue credits}
All photographs in this booklet are © 1999 Burt and Katherine Holzman Goldblatt, Paul J. Hoeffler, or Jan Persson.

[Booklet back]
© 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc.

[CD faces]
This compilation ℗ 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc. © 1999 PolyGram Records, Inc.
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