Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitzgerald at Mister Kelly's 1958
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2017
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Your Red Wagon (3:00)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:36)
- I'm Glad There Is You (2:54)
- How Long Has This Been Going On? (2:45)
- Across the Alley from the Alamo (2:14)
- Perdido (5:45)
- The Lady Is a Tramp (3:01)
- Bewitched (5:48)
- Summertime (5:01)
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (3:55)
- St. Louis Blues (6:13)
- Witchcraft (2:58)
- Love Me or Leave Me (3:48)
- Joe Williams' Blues (5:58)
- Porgy & Bess Medley (5:48)
- How High the Moon (6:56)
- CD 2:
- Announcement (1:54)
- Exactly Like You (7:38)
- Come Rain or Come Shine (4:30)
- Stardust (6:15)
- 'S Wonderful (1:36)
- You Don't Know What Love Is (3:38)
- Witchcraft #2 (2:52)
- Perdido #2 (6:31)
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning #2 (4:04)
- My Funny Valentine (3:05)
- Anything Goes (2:12)
- Introduction by John McLellan (1:40)
- Why Don't You Do It Right? (5:05)
- Mean to Me (3:15)
- Closing Announcement (0:52)
- I Can't Get Started (3:48)
- Later (2:44)
- That Old Black Magic (2:04)
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This release presents Ella Fitzgerald’s 1958 performances at the iconic Chicago club Mister Kelly’s. For thirty years, before it closed on August 25, 1975, it was a springboard to fame for countless entertainers. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, “It was a supernova in the local and national nightlife firmament.”
Ella is backed on these sets by a trio consisting of Lou Levy on piano, Max Bennett on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. She performs a nice collection of well-known standards, as well as some tunes she rarely sang, such as the opening “Your Red Wagon” and “Across the Alley from the Alamo”.
Three rare radio broadcasts, which also showcase Ella singing at small clubs have been added here as a bonus.