Catorze canções dos melhores dias do swing, compostas entre 1930 e 1945, tocadas e cantadas vezes sem conta nos salões de dança ou nos anúncios da rádio, foram gravados por Ella Fitzgerald de uma forma completamente nova e personalizada em 1961. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! apresenta musicalidade ímpar, qualidade de gravação perfeita e acompanhamento soberbo com espaço para a improvisação.

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• Edição Limitada
• Duplo LP 45rpm em Vinil 200 Gramas
• Prensagem na QRP USA
• Masterizado por George Marino na Sterling Sound
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais

Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella.) She performed at top venues all over the world, and packed them to the hilt. Her audiences were as diverse as her vocal range. They were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one binding factor in common - they all loved her.

The First Lady of Song is at her most intensely swinging and graceful level for this session of 14 songs including "Cry Me a River" and "'Round Midnite". "...a superior representation of the singer as a jazz interpreter. This set is one of her best." - John Tynan, Down Beat, 1962

"Back in the 1990s original Verve pressings of this record were hot items pushed into prominence in great part by write-ups in The Absolute Sound, particularly by my friend Frank Doris. I found a few, and even a few in pretty good condition, but none of them begin to compare to this double 45 RPM set that offers more of everything, particularly transparency and instrumental separation. ...Ella's on a microphone with a slightly rising high end but if it sounds icy, don't blame the recording or the mastering. It's your system. If it's well-balanced and your cartridge is a good tracker, the vocal transparency and clarity are spooky and the sibilant articulation is precise. These double 45s cut at Sterling Sound use the original tapes, not copies of the original tapes and the clarity and transparency coupled with QRP's drop dead silent pressings are remarkable. The original pre-MGM buyout LP has a pleasingly nostalgic quality and the added warmth produces a bit more room sound, but in my opinion it can't compare to this reissue unless you like hear things through rose-tinted loudspeakers. Elegantly produced, arranged and recorded and easy to recommend..." - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet, Music 9/11, Sound 9/11.

Fourteen numbers from the heyday of swing, composed sometime between 1930 and 1945 - played and sung time and time again in ballrooms, or on the radio to advertise biscuits or war bonds, were recorded by Ella in completely new and personal interpretations in 1961. No one should be put off by the rather unfortunate cover. Clap Hands... is absolutely top notch as regards musicality, perfect recording quality, superb accompaniment by a small ensemble, with room for improvisations; it offers a wonderful opportunity to discover something new in these evergreens, despite the occasionally banal lyrics. The songs of this recording conjure up bygone days, with listeners in the 21st century being offered a highly personal homage to one of the most successful periods in the 100-year history of jazz.

Músicos:

Ella Fitzgerald, voz
Herb Ellis, guitarra
Gus Johnson, bateria
Stan Levey, bateria
Lou Levy, piano
Wilfred Middlebrooks, baixo
Joe Mondragon, baixo

Lista de Faixas:

01. Night In Tunisia
02. You're My Thrill
03. My Reverie
04. Stella My Starlight
05. 'Round Midnite
06. Jersey Bounce
07. Signing Off
08. Cry Me A River
09. This Year's Kisses
10. Good Morning Heartache
11. (I Was) Born To Be Blue
12. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
13. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
14. Music Goes 'Round and 'Round

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