Ella Fitzgerald sings the Gershwin songbook Ella Fitzgerald the Great American songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Rodgers and Hart songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Harold Arlen songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Irving Berlin songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Johnny Mercer songbook Ella Fitzgerald sings the Jerome Kern songbook Ella Loves Cole
エラ自身の履歴は Wikipedia にしっかりと記事がありますので、じっくりとご覧になってください。
#94 - Carol Sloane / Songs Ella & Louis Sang / Concord Records / 1997 #79 - Patti Austin / For Ella / Concord Records / 2001 #61 - Jane Monheit / The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald / Emerald City Records / 2015 #45 - Dee Dee Bridgewater / Dear Ella / Emarcy / 1997 #27 - Denise Jannah / Ella! : Denise Jannah sings Ella Fitzgerald / September / 2015 #1 - Ann Hampton Callaway / To Ella with Love / Shanachie Entertainment / 1996
Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - For Ella 2 Tommy Flanagan – Lady Be Good ... For Ella
********************************************************* 登場曲 (alphabetical) Composer/Lyricist/year - (comment No.) ********************************************************* "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander/Ella Fitzgerald/1938) - (#46, 84) "All of You" (Cole Porter/1954) - (#74) "All Too Soon" (Duke Ellington/Carl Sigman/1940) - (#62) "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke/1934) - (#101) "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams/Glenn Miller & Jack Teagarden/1928) - (#40) "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin/1926) - (#29) "Blueberry Hill" (Vincent Rose/Larry Stock and Al Lewis/1940) - (#106) "Body And Soul" (Johnny Green/Edward Heyman & Robert Sour & Frank Eyton/1930) - (#13) "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#11, 87) "Can't We Be Friends?" (Kay Swift/Paul James/1929) - (#99) "Chelsea Mood"(Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn/Manny Kurtz & Irving Mills/????) - (#64) "Comes Love" (Sam H.Stept/Lew Brown & Charlie Tobias/1939) - (#38) "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington/Duke Ellington & Jon Hendricks/1940) - (#54) "Dear Ella" (Kenny Burrell/1997) - (#59) "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell/1940) - (#3) "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman & Edgar Sampson/Mitchell Parish/1938) - (#98) "Early Autumn" (Ralph Burns&Woody Herman/Johnny Mercer/1949) - (#30) "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1928) - (#6) "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter/1944) - (#19, 71) "A Fine Romance" (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields/1936) - (#4) "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf & Don Redman/1929) - (#100) "Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, and Charles Bates/1924) - (#86) "Hearing Ella Sing" (Arthur Hamilton & Patrick Williams/2001) - (#91) "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller/Andy Razaf/1929) - (#81) "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis/Nancy Hamilton/1940) - (#7, 52, 92) "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington/Paul Francis Webster/1941) - (#20, 37) "I Used to Be Colorblind" (Irving Berlin/1938) - (#75) "I Was Doing All Right"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#67, 69) "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II/Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh/1934) - (#96) " I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington & Don George & Johnny Hodges & Harry James/1944) - (#12) "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter/1936) - (#76) "If You Can't Sing It, You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow/1936) - (#53, 82) "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser/1950) - (#33) "Ill Wind"(Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler/1934) - (#73) "It's Delovely" (Cole Porter/1936) - (#41) "Know You Now"(Donovan Jackson & Earl "Chinna" Smith & Gordon Williams & Amy Winehouse/????) - (#67, 68) "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (Cole Porter/1928) - (#51, 102) "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler/1933 - (#2) "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/1935) - (#16) "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#83) "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing/George David Weiss/1952) - (#17) "Mack the Knife"(Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht & Marc Blitzstein/1928) - (#48) "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#90) "Midnight Sun" (Francis "Sonny" Burke & Lionel Hampton/Johnny Mercer/1947) - (#50) "Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter/1934) - (#85) "Moonlight In Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf/John Blackburn/1944) - (#34, 105) "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter/1938) - (#55) "Nature Boy" (Eden Ahbez/1947) - (#35) "Oh, Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#21, 57) "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser/1948) - (#56) "Reach For Tomorrow" (James McHugh/Ned Washington/1960)- (#42) "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn/Johnny Mercer/1953) - (#89) "Somebody Loves Me"(George Gershwin/Buddy DeSylva & Ballard MacDonald/1924) - (#63) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1926) - (#32) "Something's Gotta Give" (Johnny Mercer/1955) - (#65) "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington & Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish/1932) - (#39) "Stairway to the Stars" (Matt Malneck & Frank Signorelli/Mitchell Parish/1935) - (#58) "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish/1934) - (#104) "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Chick Webb & Edgar Sampson/Andy Razaf/1934) - (#107) "Tenderly" (Walter Gross/Jack Lawrence/1946) - (#97) "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer/1942) - (#15, 36) "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer/1941) - (#77) "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener/1956) - (#80) "To Ella" (Denise Jannah/2015) - (#31) "Undecided"(Sydney Robin/Charlie Shavers/1938) - (#49) "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" (Otis Rene & Leon René/Clarence Muse/1931) - (#108) "Where or When"(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/1937) - (#72)
Nicholas Payton (tp)
Michael Kanan (p)
Neal Miner (b)
Rick Montalbano (ds)
Daniel Sasownick (percussion)
かなりおどろおどろしい編曲になっています :-)
ちょっとやりすぎ?
Blow ill wind, blow away, find my love today
You're blowin' me no good, no good
Go ill wind, go away, skies are oh, so gray
Around my neighborhood and that's no good
You're only misleadin' the sunshine I'm needin'
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere, when loves to blame
So ill wind, blow away, find my love today
You're blowin' me no good, no good, no good
Nicholas Payton (tp, p, organ, cowbell, glass bottle, hand claps)
Michael Kanan (el-p, hand claps)
Neal Miner (b, hand claps)
Rick Montalbano (ds, hand claps)
Daniel Sasownick (percussion, hand claps)
Recorded at WDRStudio 4 Köln, Germany June 19-22 & 28, 2001 and at Köln Philharmonic Hall June 26, 2001
1. Too Close for Comfort (Jerry Bock / Larry Holofcener / George David Weiss)
2. Honeysuckle Rose (Andy Razaf / Fats Waller)
3. You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) (Sam Coslow)
4. Love Is Here to Stay (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
5. A-Tisket, A-Tasket (Van Alexander / Ella Fitzgerald)
6. Miss Otis Regrets (Cole Porter)
7. Hard Hearted Hannah, (The Vamp of Savannah) (Milton Ager / Charles Bates / Bob Bigelow / Jack Yellen)
8. But Not for Me (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
9. Satin Doll (Duke Ellington / Johnny Mercer / Billy Strayhorn)
10. The Man I Love (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
11. Hearing Ella Sing (Arthur Hamilton / Patrick Williams)
12. How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis)
Musicians:
Arranged and conducted by Patrick Williams
Featuring the WDR Big Band with Gregg Field
パティ・オースティン、Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) についてはこちらをご覧ください。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Austin
【気になる現代の歌姫たち】ではまだ取り上げていませんでしたが、このコミュニティでは何度も登場しています。
R&B色の強いジャズ・シンガーと見ていたのですが、こんなにしっかりとしたソングブック・アルバムを出していました。
彼女には多くのアルバムがあります。
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/patti-austin-mn0000017929/discography
Be wise, be smart, behave, my heart
Don't upset your cart when she's so close
Be soft, be sweet, but be discreet
Don't go off your feet, she's so close for comfort
Too close, too close for comfort, please, not again
Too close, too close to know just when to say "when"
Be firm, be fair, be sure, beware
On your guard, take care, while there's such temptation
One thing leads to another
Too late to run for cover
She's much too close for comfort now
Too close, too close for comfort, please, not again
Too close, too close to know just when to say "when"
Be firm and be fair, be sure, beware
On your guard, take care, while there's such temptation
One thing leads to another
Too late to run for cover
She's much too close for comfort now
Too close, much too close
She's much too close for comfort now
エラの音源です。
映画 Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) の1シーンです。
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048484/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Kelly%27s_Blues_(film)
未だに "it's all bananas" の意味が分かりません(汗)
ここのところ
"Than any Russian play could guarantee"
は W&Rさんは「ロシア映画」と訳していますが、「ロシア劇」の方が相応しいかもしれません。
わたしは「ロシアン・ルーレット」のことかと思っていました(恥)
(Verse)
Old man sunshine, listen, you!
Never tell me "dreams come true."
Just try it --
And I'll start a riot.
I'm certain
It's the final curtain.
I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas,
Who tell you fate,
Supplies a mate --
It's all bananas!
この手の「男が欲しいわぁ…」と歌われる同趣旨の曲はいくつかありますね。
さっと思いつくところでは
"Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin(1926))
"Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer(1941))
"Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman(1941))
"Baltimore Oriole" (Hoagy Carmichael/Paul Francis Webster(1942))
"Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield(1950))
あたりがあります。
作曲者たちについてはは次をご覧ください。
Patrick Moody Williams (born April 23, 1939)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Williams_(composer)
このアルバムのアレンジャーでもあります。
Arthur Hamilton (born Arthur Stern, c. 1926)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hamilton
ライナーノーツ(日本版)によると、同名の別人かもしれないとあります。
パティに問い合わせると何かわかるかもしれませんね。
Sweet and pure, taht's for sure
And you always know when you're
Hearing Ella sing
Cool and hot
If you're no grooving then you are not
Hearing Ella sing
She sang with Bing and Frank and Nat
On everything from jazz to scat
You bet your bottom dollar
That you learn to swing
Hearing Ella sing
Hear that bird bend that word
Ain't no sound like the one you heard
Hearing Ella sing
Hear the throat bend that note
You'll be hear than the writer wrote
Hearing Ella sing, yeah
She broke all the records at the record shop
And no one's gonna ever stop
Remembering
Hearing Ella sing
Oh, this ooh bla di is for my Ella
Let it flow, let her know
Man, we can still hear Ella all around us
Ella, Ella, we will never let you go
Oh this --- this for Ella
Let it flow, we can
We can still hear Ella all around us
Come on, come on, come on
You gotta let her know
Oh, Miss Fitzgerald
We will never let you go
Ella, Ella, oh, Ella
We will never let you go
1. I Won't Dance (Dorothy Fields / Otto Harbach / Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern / Jimmy McHugh)
2. Tenderly (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence)
3. Don't Be That Way (Benny Goodman / Mitchell Parish / Edgar Sampson)
4. Can't We Be Friends? (Paul James / Kay Swift)
5. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Andy Razaf / Don Redman)
6. Autumn in New York (Vernon Duke)
7. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) (Cole Porter)
8. Stars Fell on Alabama (Mitchell Parish / Frank Perkins)
9. Moonlight in Vermont (John Blackburn / Karl Suessdorf)
10. Blueberry Hill (Al Lewis / Vincent Rose / Larry Stock)
11. Stompin' at the Savoy (Benny Goodman / Andy Razaf / Edgar Sampson / Chick Webb)
12. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Clarence Muse / Otis Rene / Leon René)
Musicians:
Carol Sloane (vo)
Clark Terry (flugelhorn, tp, vo)
Bill Charap (p)
Marcus McLaurine (b)
Dennis Mackrel (ds)
キャロル・スローンについては、他のトピックですでに取り上げていますので、ここでは詳しくは延べませんが、原題を代表する歌姫です。
Carol Sloane (born March 5, 1937)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Sloane
クラーク・テリーはスイング、バップ、メインストリームと、50年を超えてジャズの最前線を歩んできたトランぺッターで、演奏家として、歌手として、エンターテイナーとしてもよく知られていますが、少し前の2015年に鬼籍に入っています。
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Terry
また彼は、スキャットを超越した(?)「マンブリング(mumbling)」という唱法を作り上げています。
このジャズのビッグネーム同士を組み合わせたアルバムが
Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis (1956)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/ella-and-louis-mw0000191819
です。
このアルバムはセールス的には好評のようで続編まで作られています。
Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong / Ella & Louis Again (1957)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/ella-louis-again-mw0000188027
Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis (1956)
1. Can't We Be Friends?
2. Isn't This a Lovely Day?
3. Moonlight in Vermont
4. They Can't Take That Away from Me
5. Under a Blanket of Blue
6. Tenderly
7. A Foggy Day
8. Stars Fell on Alabama
9. Cheek to Cheek
10. The Nearness of You
11. April in Paris
Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong / Ella & Louis Again (1957)
1. Don't Be That Way
2. Makin' Whoopee
3. They All Laughed
4. Comes Love
5. Autumn in New York
6. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
7. Stompin' at the Savoy
8. I Won't Dance
9. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Disc 2
1. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
2. These Foolish Things
3. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
4. Willow Weep for Me
5. I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
6. A Fine Romance
7. Ill Wind
8. Love Is Here to Stay
9. I Get a Kick Out of You
10. Learnin' the Blues
作曲者に名を連ねている Edgar Melvin Sampson (October 31, 1907 – January 16, 1973) はチック・ウエッブ楽団の編曲者でもあり、"Stompin' at the Savoy" の作曲者としてもよく知られています。
(チック・ウエッブ楽団とエラの関係はどっかで書いた記憶が…)
1938年のベニー・グッドマン楽団というと、チャーリー・クリスチャンが入団する少し前になりますね。
April skies are in your eyes, but darling, don't be blue
Don't cry, oh honey, please don't be that way
Clouds in the sky should never make you feel that way
The rain will bring the violets of May
Tears are in vain, so honey, please don't be that way
As long as we see it through, you'll have me, I'll have you
Sweetheart, tomorrow is another day
Don't break my heart, oh honey, please don't be that way
Don't cry, oh honey, please, don't be that way
Clouds in the sky should never make you feel that way
The rain will bring the violets of May
Tears in vain, so honey please don't be that way
As long as we will see it through, you'll have me and I'll have you
Sweetheart, tomorrow is another day
Don't break my heart, oh honey, please, don't be that way
Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
この曲はミュージカル(舞台)The Little Show (1929) で使われました。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Show
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-little-show-10895
Kay Swift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Swift
Paul James
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Warburg
I thought I'd found the man of my dreams
Now it seems, this is how the story ends
He's going to turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
I thought for once it couldn't go wrong
Not for long! I can see the way this ends
He's going to turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
Never again, through with love
Through with men
They play their game without shame
And who's to blame?
I thought I'd found a man I could trust
What a bust, this is how the story ends
He's going to turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
Yes, I thought I knew the wheat from the chaff
What a laugh, this is how our story ends
I'll let her turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
I acted like a kid out of school
What a fool, now I see this is the end
I'll let her turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
Oh, what should I give?
Though he gave me the air
Why should I cry?
He was sigh and wonder why
Yes, I should have seen the signal to stop
What a flop, this is how the story ends
She's gonna turn me down and say
"Can't we be friends?"
What should I give?
Though he gave me the air
And why should I cry?
He was sigh and wonder why
I should have seen the signal to stop
What a flop, this is how the story ends
I let him turn me down and say
Can't we be, can't we be, can't we be
Can't we be, can't we be, can't we be friends?
Oh, yes
Andy Razaf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Razaf
Don Redman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Redman
Love makes me treat you the way that I do
Baby, ain't I good to you
Nothing in this world too good for a girl so good and true
Whoa, baby, ain't I good to you
I bought you a fur coat for Christmas
And a diamond ring, yes I did
And a big Cadillac car, and everything
What makes me treat you the way that I do
It must be love baby
That's why I'm so good to you
I bought you a fur coat for Christmas
And a diamond ring,
And a great big Eldorado, and everything
Related
It must be love that makes me treat you the way that I do
Gee,
Baby ain't I good to you
作曲者の Frank S. Perkins (April 21, 1908 – March 15, 1988) についてはこちらをご覧ください
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Perkins_(composer)
彼が書いた曲の中でも、この曲が一番知られている曲のようです。
1950年にSP盤で Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald – Blueberry Hill / Baby, Won't You Say You Love Me がリリースされ、A面にルイの録音が、B面にエラの録音とでカップリングされていますが、この曲はルイだけの歌唱です。
Savoy, the home of sweet romance,
Savoy, it wins you with a glance,
Savoy, gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Your old form just like a clinging vine,
Your lips so warm and sweet as wine,
Your cheek so soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the Savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
The home of sweet romance,
It wins you at a glance,
Gives happy feet a chance to dance.
Just like a clinging vine,
So soft and sweet as wine,
So soft and close to mine, divine.
How my heart is singing,
While the band is swinging,
I'm never, never, never tired of romping,
And stomping with you at the Savoy.
What joy - a perfect holiday,
Savoy, where we can glide and sway,
Savoy, let me stomp away with you;
『Twelve Nights in Hollywood』は、アメリカン・ジャズ歌手エラ・フィッツジェラルドの2009年リリースされたライブ・アルバムで、1961年5月にロサンゼルスのハリウッドにあるクレシェンド・クラブで10夜にわたって録音され、その後1962年6月に開催された2回の公演も収録されています。
1961年にフィッツジェラルドは、クレシェンドでのライブパフォーマンスを収録したアルバム『Ella in Hollywood』をリリースしました。このアルバムには、1961年のアルバムのトラックや、1962年の滞在から生まれた2つのシングル「Ol' Man Mose」と「Bill Bailey」は一切収録されていません。
エラ・フィッツジェラルドの『Twelve Nights In Hollywood』は前例のないリリースです。エラが最もリラックスした絶頂期に録音された、73曲の完全未発表ライブ録音を含む4枚組CDボックスセットです。『Twelve Nights In Hollywood』では、Verve Selectがアーカイブを掘り起こし、1961年にロサンゼルスのCrescendo Clubで10夜にわたって行われたエラの公演(当初はヒットLP『Ella In Hollywood』としてリリースされたもの)と、翌年に2夜にわたって行われた再公演から、最高のパフォーマンスを厳選。オリジナルアルバムの収録曲と重複することなく、クラブの最前列に座っているかのような忘れがたい体験を提供します。このアルバムには、エラがライブで初めて披露したトラック、スタジオで録音したトラック、またはまだ録音していなかったトラック、そして新鮮な解釈で再演した定番曲が含まれています。4枚のディスクにわたる数多くのハイライトのうち、特に目立つのは「But Not For Me」「Nice Work If You Can Get It」「Perdido」「How High the Moon」「When Your Lover Has Gone」です。
『Twelve Nights In Hollywood』は、オスカー・ピーターソンのセットと同じ7 3/8インチの正方形サイズの高級パッケージに収められており、詳細なライナーノーツ、注釈、レアな写真、そして殿堂入りイラストレーターであるバート・フォーブスが特別に制作したアルバムカバーアートが付属しています。エラのライブアルバムはいくつか存在しますが、これは確かに他のどのアルバムとも異なります。