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Released
  
September 30, 1997

Dear Ella (1997)
  
Live at Yoshi's (1998)

Release date
  
30 September 1997

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
36:31

Artist
  
Dee Dee Bridgewater

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
January 29, 1997 –February 19, 1997

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Similar
  
Dee Dee Bridgewater albums, Vocal jazz albums

Dee dee bridgewater dear ella


Dear Ella is a 1997 studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater, recorded in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, who had died the previous year.

Contents

For Dear Ella, Bridgewater won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Slide Hampton won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his arrangement of "Cotton Tail" at the 40th Grammy Awards.

Dear ella


Track listing

  1. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 2:32
  2. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:59
  3. "Undecided" (Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 6:22
  4. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 7:22
  5. "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:31
  6. "How High the Moon" (Morgan Hamilton, Nancy Lewis) – 5:05
  7. "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 6:34
  8. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 2:58
  9. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Porter) – 5:05
  10. "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:57
  11. "Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:39
  12. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:10
  13. "Dear Ella" (Kenny Burrell) – 4:56

Personnel

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocals
  • Cecil Bridgewater – trumpet, arranger, conductor
  • Virgil Jones – trumpet, horn, soloist
  • Byron Stripling – trumpet
  • Ron Tooley – trumpet
  • Diego Urcola – trumpet
  • Slide Hampton – trombone, arranger, conductor
  • Clarence Banks – trombone, horn, soloist
  • Benny Powell – trombone
  • Robert Trowers – trombone
  • Douglas Purviance – bass trombone
  • F. Robert Lloyd – horn
  • J. Anderson – tuba
  • Antonio Hart – alto saxophone, soloist
  • Jeff Clayton – alto saxophone
  • Teodross Avery – tenor saxophone
  • Bill Easley – tenor saxophone
  • Patience Higgins – baritone saxophone
  • R. Taylor – flute
  • R. Jowitt – clarinet
  • A. Wallbank – bass clarinet
  • R.J. Morgan – oboe
  • Lou Levy – piano, arranger
  • Milt Jackson – vibraphone
  • Kenny Burrell – guitar, arranger
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Grady Tate – drums
  • André Ceccarelli – drums
  • A. Hakin – percussion
  • Boguslaw Kostecki, A. Noland, T. Williams, R. Wilson – violin
  • J. Graham and G. Jackson – viola
  • Peter Willison – cello
  • John Clayton – big band arranger and conductor

    • Production

  • Rob Eaton, Keith Grant, Al Schmitt – engineer
  • Peter Doell, Koji Egawa, Brian Garten, Alex Marcou – assistant engineer
  • Jean Luc Barilla – design
  • Philippe Pierangeli – photography

    • Songs

    1A Tisket - a Tasket2:32
    2Mack the Knife3:59
    3Undecided6:22

    References

    Dear Ella Wikipedia
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