'Ella Fitzgerald, fondly remembered as the 'First Lady of Song,' was one of America's greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems possible to. Ella Fitzgerald Full Discography Torrent. July 1, 2017. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Please reload. This site was designed with the.com website builder.

Released 1994 Recorded February 7–9, March 27, August 21, 28–31, September 4, 1956, June 24–27, October 17, 1957, March 13–14, 17–19, 1958, January 5–8, March 18, 26, July 15–17, 1959 Length 902: 45 chronology The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books (1994) (1997) Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating The Ella Fitzgerald Song Books were a series of eight studio albums released in irregular intervals between 1956 and 1964, recorded by the singer, supported by a variety of,, and small jazz combos. The eight albums are as follows, with arrangers in parentheses: • (1956) () • (1956) (Bregman) • (1957) ( & ) • (1958) () • (1959) () • (1961) () • (1963) (Riddle) • (1964) (Riddle) As stated in the liner notes, Fitzgerald and Norman Granz made one final edition to the series in 1981 on with: • Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Song Book ( ) (1981) (Erich Bulling) They are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded popular music, and as a whole, represent some of the finest interpretations of the greater part of the musical canon known as the.

Columnist was moved to write a few days after Fitzgerald's death that in the Song Book series, she 'performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as 's contemporaneous integration of white and soul.' Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant to a national audience of predominantly white. As said, in the line quoted in every obituary: 'I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.' Most of the rest of us didn't know, either. By the time she had gone through the entire canon, songs that had been pigeonholed as show tunes or jazz novelties or faded relics of had become American classical music, the property and pride of everyone.' Was moved out of respect for Fitzgerald to block from re-releasing his own albums in a similar, single composer vein.

Reissued the eight albums in 1994 in this expansive boxset, which won the for.