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Released
  
September 1963

Length
  
40:57

Ella and Basie! (1963)
  
Basie Land (1963)

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

Recorded
  
July 16–17, 1963

Label
  
Verve

Release date
  
September 1963

Genre
  
Jazz

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Ella and Basie! (1963)
  
These Are the Blues (1963)

Artists
  
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie Orchestra

Similar
  
Ella Fitzgerald albums, Jazz albums

Ella and Basie! is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, with arrangements by Quincy Jones. It was later reissued with slightly different cover art as On the Sunny Side of the Street.

Contents

Overview

Surprisingly, Ella and the Basie band had only recorded together once before, on the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump.

This album was the first time that Fitzgerald and Jones worked together; they would next meet for the Back on the Block sessions in 1989.

This album is revered alongside Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961), Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and Ella in Hollywood (1961) as one of Ella's greatest recordings.

Track listing

For the 1963 Verve LP album, Verve V6-4061

Side One:

  1. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:42
  2. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:40
  3. "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) – 3:20
  4. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 5:04
  5. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt) – 4:04
  6. "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 3:10

Side Two:

  1. "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:13
  2. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 3:57
  3. "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:30
  4. "This Is My Last Affair" (Haven Johnson) – 3:11
  5. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Razaf, Waller) – 3:06
  6. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)  – 3:00

Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1997 Verve CD Reissue, Verve 539 059-2

  1. "My Last Affair" (Alternative take) – 3:26
  2. "My Last Affair" (Alternative take) – 3:39
  3. "Robbins Nest" (Breakdown) (Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Sir Charles Thompson) – 1:22
  4. "Robbins Nest" (Previously unreleased) – 3:40
  5. "Robbins Nest" (Alternative take) – 3:09
  6. "Robbins Nest" (Alternative take) – 2:55

Personnel

Recorded from July 16 to July 17, 1963, at A & R Studios, NYC

  • Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
    • The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Sonny Cohn - trumpet
  • Al Aarons
  • Joe Newman
  • Don Rader
  • Eric Dixon - flute, tenor saxophone
  • Frank Foster - flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Frank Wess
  • Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Benny Powell - trombone
  • Urbie Green
  • Henry Coker
  • Grover Mitchell
  • Flip Ricard - trombone, trumpet
  • Marshal Royal - clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Buddy Catlett - double bass
  • Sonny Payne - drums
  • Quincy Jones - arranger
  • Val Valentin - recording engineer
  • Jay Thompson - cover photo

    • Songs

    1Honeysuckle Rose2:43
    2'Deed I Do2:44
    3Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall3:22

    References

    Ella and Basie! Wikipedia
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