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#385/ WHERE TO START COLLECTING VERVE RECORDS...pt.1 The Early Years, Norman Granz n company!
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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado (Verve Records 1962)
"Desafinado", a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key"), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça. The English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and Jessie Cavanaugh. Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by Gene Lees, and appears on some recordings as well. The version by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (from the album Jazz Samba) was a major hit in 1962, reaching 15 and 4 on Billboard's pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached No 11 in the UK, Ella Fitzgerald's version ranked number 38 on the charts.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charl...
published: 06 Aug 2013
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Jazz En Verve Vol 2
Various
Jazz En Verve Vol. 2
Verve Records 833 780-2
Germany, 1988
Collection P. Kritidis
00:00 Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie - A Oscar For Treadwell
03:24 Bud Powell - Round Midnight
08:30 J.J. Johnson / Stan Getz - Blues In The Closet
14:53 Dizzy Gillespie / Sonny Stitt / Sonny Rollins - Sunny Side Of The Street
20:35 Modern Jazz Quartet - Now's The Time
25:19 Cannonball Adderley / Ray Brown - Work Song
30:37 Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine
35:39 Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
41:00 Chet Baker - Something
44:19 Sonny Rollins - Who Cares
48:18 Bill Evans - Someday My Prince Will Come
53:52 Wes Montgomery - Caravan
56:31 Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Phonographic Copyright - PolyGram Records, Inc.
Made by PDO, Germany
published: 10 Jan 2021
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Verve 50th Anniversary The JAZZ MASTERS
Joe Henderson,Kenny Burrell,Ray Brown,Hank Jones
J.J.Joneson,Jimmy Smith,Roy Hargrove,Jackie McLean
Christian McBride,Abbey Lincoln and so on
published: 11 Jun 2019
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Kurt Vile - Run Run Run (Radio Edit)
Watch Kurt Vile & The Violator's official video for "Run Run Run" from the album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico.
Listen to "Run Run Run" and pre-order the album: https://Verve.lnk.to/IllBeYourMirrorID
Follow Kurt Vile: https://linktr.ee/kurtvile/
Verve Records unveils the new tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico with tracks from Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett, Sharon Van Etten (with additional vocals by Angel Olsen) and more.
Kurt Vile, who recently signed with Verve Records, says: “I literally covered “Run Run Run” when I was a kid. In my late teens with my band at the time. So it was pretty cosmic, let’s say. There is a direct connection to certain indie bands and beyond w/ the Velv...
published: 14 Jul 2021
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Ella Fitzgerald - Mood Indigo (Verve Records 1957)
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, "Mood Indigo" (1930) & (1955) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.
The tune was composed for a radio broadcast in October 1930 and was originally titled "Dreamy Blues." It was "the first tune I ever wrote specially for microphone transmission," Ellington recalled. "The next day wads of mail came in raving about the new tune, so Irving Mills put a lyric to it." Renamed "Mood Indigo," it became a jazz standard. While Irving Mills—Jack Mills's brother and publishing partner—took credit for the lyrics, in a 1987 interview, lyricist Mitchell Parish claimed that he had written the lyrics.
What makes the original recording(s) so interesting is the fact that Ellington ...
published: 05 Apr 2013
52:05
#385/ WHERE TO START COLLECTING VERVE RECORDS...pt.1 The Early Years, Norman Granz n company!
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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Desafinado (Verve Records 1962)
"Desafinado", a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key"), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos ...
"Desafinado", a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key"), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça. The English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and Jessie Cavanaugh. Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by Gene Lees, and appears on some recordings as well. The version by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (from the album Jazz Samba) was a major hit in 1962, reaching 15 and 4 on Billboard's pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached No 11 in the UK, Ella Fitzgerald's version ranked number 38 on the charts.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on April 20, 1962. Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the mid-1960s. Though Stan Getz was the featured star of the album, it was very strongly inspired and designed by the guitarist Charlie Byrd. They were joined by two bassists (Keter Betts and Charlie's brother, Gene (Joe) Byrd), and two drummers (Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach) for the recording at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962, and it was released on April 20, that year as Verve LP V6-8432.
Although it is often described as music by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, only two of the seven tracks on the album are Jobim compositions ("Desafinado" [Slightly Out of Tune] and "Samba de Uma Nota Só" [One Note Samba]), the rest being by other Brazilian composers and by Charlie Byrd. Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for the track "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa-nova recordings, most notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, and most famously "The Girl From Ipanema".
Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski, February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz performed in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
When I try to sing you say I'm off key
Why can't you see how much this hurts me
With your perfect beauty and your perfect pitch
You're a perfect terror
When I come around must you always put me down
If you say my singing is off key my love
You will hurt my feelings don't you see my love
I wish I had an ear like yours
A voice that would behave
But all I have is feelings and a voice gone deaf
You insist my music goes against the rules
But rules were never meant for lovesick fools
I wrote this little song for you but you don't care
Its a crooked song oh but all my love is there
The thing that you would see if you would play your part
Is even if I'm out of tune I have a gentle heart
I took your picture with my trusty rollaflex
And now all I have developed is a complex
Possibly in vain I hope you weaken oh my love
And forget these rigid rules that undermine my dream of
A life of love and music with someone who'll understand
That even though I may be out of tune
When I attempt to say how much I love you
All that matters is the message that I bring
Which is my dear one I love you
https://wn.com/Stan_Getz_Charlie_Byrd_Desafinado_(Verve_Records_1962)
"Desafinado", a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key"), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça. The English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and Jessie Cavanaugh. Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but not a translation) was written by Gene Lees, and appears on some recordings as well. The version by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (from the album Jazz Samba) was a major hit in 1962, reaching 15 and 4 on Billboard's pop and easy-listening charts, respectively; their definitive rendering also reached No 11 in the UK, Ella Fitzgerald's version ranked number 38 on the charts.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on April 20, 1962. Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the mid-1960s. Though Stan Getz was the featured star of the album, it was very strongly inspired and designed by the guitarist Charlie Byrd. They were joined by two bassists (Keter Betts and Charlie's brother, Gene (Joe) Byrd), and two drummers (Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach) for the recording at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962, and it was released on April 20, that year as Verve LP V6-8432.
Although it is often described as music by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, only two of the seven tracks on the album are Jobim compositions ("Desafinado" [Slightly Out of Tune] and "Samba de Uma Nota Só" [One Note Samba]), the rest being by other Brazilian composers and by Charlie Byrd. Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for the track "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa-nova recordings, most notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, and most famously "The Girl From Ipanema".
Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski, February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz performed in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
When I try to sing you say I'm off key
Why can't you see how much this hurts me
With your perfect beauty and your perfect pitch
You're a perfect terror
When I come around must you always put me down
If you say my singing is off key my love
You will hurt my feelings don't you see my love
I wish I had an ear like yours
A voice that would behave
But all I have is feelings and a voice gone deaf
You insist my music goes against the rules
But rules were never meant for lovesick fools
I wrote this little song for you but you don't care
Its a crooked song oh but all my love is there
The thing that you would see if you would play your part
Is even if I'm out of tune I have a gentle heart
I took your picture with my trusty rollaflex
And now all I have developed is a complex
Possibly in vain I hope you weaken oh my love
And forget these rigid rules that undermine my dream of
A life of love and music with someone who'll understand
That even though I may be out of tune
When I attempt to say how much I love you
All that matters is the message that I bring
Which is my dear one I love you
- published: 06 Aug 2013
- views: 378251
59:57
Jazz En Verve Vol 2
Various
Jazz En Verve Vol. 2
Verve Records 833 780-2
Germany, 1988
Collection P. Kritidis
00:00 Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie - A Oscar For Treadwell
03:2...
Various
Jazz En Verve Vol. 2
Verve Records 833 780-2
Germany, 1988
Collection P. Kritidis
00:00 Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie - A Oscar For Treadwell
03:24 Bud Powell - Round Midnight
08:30 J.J. Johnson / Stan Getz - Blues In The Closet
14:53 Dizzy Gillespie / Sonny Stitt / Sonny Rollins - Sunny Side Of The Street
20:35 Modern Jazz Quartet - Now's The Time
25:19 Cannonball Adderley / Ray Brown - Work Song
30:37 Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine
35:39 Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
41:00 Chet Baker - Something
44:19 Sonny Rollins - Who Cares
48:18 Bill Evans - Someday My Prince Will Come
53:52 Wes Montgomery - Caravan
56:31 Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Phonographic Copyright - PolyGram Records, Inc.
Made by PDO, Germany
https://wn.com/Jazz_En_Verve_Vol_2
Various
Jazz En Verve Vol. 2
Verve Records 833 780-2
Germany, 1988
Collection P. Kritidis
00:00 Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie - A Oscar For Treadwell
03:24 Bud Powell - Round Midnight
08:30 J.J. Johnson / Stan Getz - Blues In The Closet
14:53 Dizzy Gillespie / Sonny Stitt / Sonny Rollins - Sunny Side Of The Street
20:35 Modern Jazz Quartet - Now's The Time
25:19 Cannonball Adderley / Ray Brown - Work Song
30:37 Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine
35:39 Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
41:00 Chet Baker - Something
44:19 Sonny Rollins - Who Cares
48:18 Bill Evans - Someday My Prince Will Come
53:52 Wes Montgomery - Caravan
56:31 Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Phonographic Copyright - PolyGram Records, Inc.
Made by PDO, Germany
- published: 10 Jan 2021
- views: 233
1:54:18
Verve 50th Anniversary The JAZZ MASTERS
Joe Henderson,Kenny Burrell,Ray Brown,Hank Jones
J.J.Joneson,Jimmy Smith,Roy Hargrove,Jackie McLean
Christian McBride,Abbey Lincoln and so on
Joe Henderson,Kenny Burrell,Ray Brown,Hank Jones
J.J.Joneson,Jimmy Smith,Roy Hargrove,Jackie McLean
Christian McBride,Abbey Lincoln and so on
https://wn.com/Verve_50Th_Anniversary_The_Jazz_Masters
Joe Henderson,Kenny Burrell,Ray Brown,Hank Jones
J.J.Joneson,Jimmy Smith,Roy Hargrove,Jackie McLean
Christian McBride,Abbey Lincoln and so on
- published: 11 Jun 2019
- views: 2713
4:04
Kurt Vile - Run Run Run (Radio Edit)
Watch Kurt Vile & The Violator's official video for "Run Run Run" from the album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico.
Listen to "Run...
Watch Kurt Vile & The Violator's official video for "Run Run Run" from the album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico.
Listen to "Run Run Run" and pre-order the album: https://Verve.lnk.to/IllBeYourMirrorID
Follow Kurt Vile: https://linktr.ee/kurtvile/
Verve Records unveils the new tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico with tracks from Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett, Sharon Van Etten (with additional vocals by Angel Olsen) and more.
Kurt Vile, who recently signed with Verve Records, says: “I literally covered “Run Run Run” when I was a kid. In my late teens with my band at the time. So it was pretty cosmic, let’s say. There is a direct connection to certain indie bands and beyond w/ the Velvets. That’s why the Velvets are a classic. You know it can have doo-wop in there and things like that, but it can also have this jagged noisy thing, and it immediately let me feel like I could do anything. The possibilities are endless. You’re completely free. Unapologetic and effortless."
Director: Zach Christy
EP: Evan Brown / Dave Gelb
Production Company: dreambear LLC
#KurtVile #RunRunRun #TheVelvetUnderground
Lyrics:
Teenage Mary said to Uncle Dave
"I sold my soul, must be saved
Gonna take a walk down to Union Square
You never know who you're gonna find there"
You gotta run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Marguerita Passion, I had to get her fixed
She wasn't well, she was getting sick
Went to sell her soul, she wasn't high
Didn't know, thinks she could buy it
And she would run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Seasick Sarah had a golden nose
Hobnail boots wrapped around her toe
When she turned blue, all the angels screamed
They didn't know, they couldn't make the scene
She had to run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Beardless Harry, what a waste
Couldn't even get a small-town taste
Rode the trolleys down to 47th
Figured he was good to get himself to heaven
Because he had to run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Written by Lou Reed
Published by Oakfield Music Ltd. C/O EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Kurt Vile – Vocals, Guitars, Mellotron
Rob Laakso – Bass, Guitar, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jesse Trbovich – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kyle Spence – Drums, Percussion
Engineered by Chris Koltay at High Bias Studios
Mixed by Rob Laakso
Mastered by Sarah Register & Bob Ludwig
Produced by Kurt Vile and Rob Laakso
Music video by Kurt Vile performing Run Run Run (Radio Edit). A Verve Compilation release; © 2021 UMG Recordings, Inc.
http://vevo.ly/PKKUCl
https://wn.com/Kurt_Vile_Run_Run_Run_(Radio_Edit)
Watch Kurt Vile & The Violator's official video for "Run Run Run" from the album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico.
Listen to "Run Run Run" and pre-order the album: https://Verve.lnk.to/IllBeYourMirrorID
Follow Kurt Vile: https://linktr.ee/kurtvile/
Verve Records unveils the new tribute album I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico with tracks from Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, St. Vincent & Thomas Bartlett, Sharon Van Etten (with additional vocals by Angel Olsen) and more.
Kurt Vile, who recently signed with Verve Records, says: “I literally covered “Run Run Run” when I was a kid. In my late teens with my band at the time. So it was pretty cosmic, let’s say. There is a direct connection to certain indie bands and beyond w/ the Velvets. That’s why the Velvets are a classic. You know it can have doo-wop in there and things like that, but it can also have this jagged noisy thing, and it immediately let me feel like I could do anything. The possibilities are endless. You’re completely free. Unapologetic and effortless."
Director: Zach Christy
EP: Evan Brown / Dave Gelb
Production Company: dreambear LLC
#KurtVile #RunRunRun #TheVelvetUnderground
Lyrics:
Teenage Mary said to Uncle Dave
"I sold my soul, must be saved
Gonna take a walk down to Union Square
You never know who you're gonna find there"
You gotta run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Marguerita Passion, I had to get her fixed
She wasn't well, she was getting sick
Went to sell her soul, she wasn't high
Didn't know, thinks she could buy it
And she would run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Seasick Sarah had a golden nose
Hobnail boots wrapped around her toe
When she turned blue, all the angels screamed
They didn't know, they couldn't make the scene
She had to run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Beardless Harry, what a waste
Couldn't even get a small-town taste
Rode the trolleys down to 47th
Figured he was good to get himself to heaven
Because he had to run, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two
Run, run, run, run, run, Gypsy death and you
Tell you whatcha do
Written by Lou Reed
Published by Oakfield Music Ltd. C/O EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Kurt Vile – Vocals, Guitars, Mellotron
Rob Laakso – Bass, Guitar, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jesse Trbovich – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kyle Spence – Drums, Percussion
Engineered by Chris Koltay at High Bias Studios
Mixed by Rob Laakso
Mastered by Sarah Register & Bob Ludwig
Produced by Kurt Vile and Rob Laakso
Music video by Kurt Vile performing Run Run Run (Radio Edit). A Verve Compilation release; © 2021 UMG Recordings, Inc.
http://vevo.ly/PKKUCl
- published: 14 Jul 2021
- views: 233077
3:32
Ella Fitzgerald - Mood Indigo (Verve Records 1957)
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, "Mood Indigo" (1930) & (1955) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney B...
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, "Mood Indigo" (1930) & (1955) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.
The tune was composed for a radio broadcast in October 1930 and was originally titled "Dreamy Blues." It was "the first tune I ever wrote specially for microphone transmission," Ellington recalled. "The next day wads of mail came in raving about the new tune, so Irving Mills put a lyric to it." Renamed "Mood Indigo," it became a jazz standard. While Irving Mills—Jack Mills's brother and publishing partner—took credit for the lyrics, in a 1987 interview, lyricist Mitchell Parish claimed that he had written the lyrics.
What makes the original recording(s) so interesting is the fact that Ellington has taken the traditional front-line of trumpet, trombone and clarinet, and turned them "upside down." At the time of these first three recordings in 1930, the usual voicing of the horns would be clarinet at the top (highest pitch), trumpet in the middle, and the trombone at the bottom (lowest pitch). In "Mood Indigo," Ellington voices the trombone right at the top of the instrument's register, and the clarinet at the very lowest. This was unheard of at the time, and also created (in the studio) a so-called "mike-tone"—an effect generated by the overtones of the clarinet and trombone (which was tightly muted as well). The "mike-tone" gives the audio-illusion of the presence of a fourth "voice," or instrument. "Mood Indigo" is performed both as an instrumental and as a vocal.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career.
Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".
In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ella's accompanied by Ben Webster (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller (d). Recorded October 17, 1957, Los Angeles. (Verve Records)
You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
Always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
In the evenin' when lights are low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's
bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.
You ain't been blue; no, no, no, no-oh, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
https://wn.com/Ella_Fitzgerald_Mood_Indigo_(Verve_Records_1957)
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, "Mood Indigo" (1930) & (1955) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.
The tune was composed for a radio broadcast in October 1930 and was originally titled "Dreamy Blues." It was "the first tune I ever wrote specially for microphone transmission," Ellington recalled. "The next day wads of mail came in raving about the new tune, so Irving Mills put a lyric to it." Renamed "Mood Indigo," it became a jazz standard. While Irving Mills—Jack Mills's brother and publishing partner—took credit for the lyrics, in a 1987 interview, lyricist Mitchell Parish claimed that he had written the lyrics.
What makes the original recording(s) so interesting is the fact that Ellington has taken the traditional front-line of trumpet, trombone and clarinet, and turned them "upside down." At the time of these first three recordings in 1930, the usual voicing of the horns would be clarinet at the top (highest pitch), trumpet in the middle, and the trombone at the bottom (lowest pitch). In "Mood Indigo," Ellington voices the trombone right at the top of the instrument's register, and the clarinet at the very lowest. This was unheard of at the time, and also created (in the studio) a so-called "mike-tone"—an effect generated by the overtones of the clarinet and trombone (which was tightly muted as well). The "mike-tone" gives the audio-illusion of the presence of a fourth "voice," or instrument. "Mood Indigo" is performed both as an instrumental and as a vocal.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career.
Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".
In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ella's accompanied by Ben Webster (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller (d). Recorded October 17, 1957, Los Angeles. (Verve Records)
You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
Always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
In the evenin' when lights are low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a soul who's
bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.
You ain't been blue; no, no, no, no-oh, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
- published: 05 Apr 2013
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