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Montreux '77 (Ella Fitzgerald album)

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Released
  
1977

Length
  
38:37

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Pablo Records

Recorded
  
July 17, 1977

Montreux '77 (1977)
  
Lady Time (1978)

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Artists
  
Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Flanagan Trio

Similar
  
Ella Fitzgerald albums, Jazz albums

Montreux '77 is a 1977 (see 1977 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan. This is one of four albums that Ella recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, being Ella's second Montreux appearance to be released on record.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 3:27
  2. "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Don George) – 4:07
  3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:48
  4. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:30
  5. "Day by Day" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 1:46
  6. "Ordinary Fool" (Paul Williams) – 3:20
  7. "One Note Samba" (Jon Hendricks, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) – 6:26
  8. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Henry Nemo, John Redmond) – 4:31
  9. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) – 4:49
  10. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:53

Personnel

Recorded July 14, 1977, in Montreux, Switzerland:

  • Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
  • Tommy Flanagan Trio:
  • Tommy Flanagan - Piano
  • Keter Betts - Bass
  • Bobby Durham - Drums

    • Songs

    1Too Close for Comfort3:37
    2I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues4:25
    3My Man4:06

    References

    Montreux '77 (Ella Fitzgerald album) Wikipedia
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