Ella at the Opera House

Infobox Album | Name = Ella at the Opera House
Type = Live album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald

| Released = 1958
Recorded = September 29, October 9 1957
Genre = Jazz
Length = 46:48
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mt1ibks9hak9 link] | Last album = "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook"
(1957)
This album = " Ella at the Opera House "
(1957)
Next album = "Like Someone in Love"
(1957)

"Ella at the Opera House" is a 1958 (see 1958 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald. The second half of the album highlights the Jazz at the Philharmonic Concerts, devised by Fitzgerald's manager Norman Granz, which featured the leading jazz players of the day in an onstage jam session, this time in Los Angeles.

This album is typical of Ella's concert repertoire in the mid 50's, singing swing standards, and songs referencing her recent 'Songbook' series, in this case, the Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart songbooks. It is also interesting to marvel at Ella's consistency in timing these songs, that six months apart, she sings the first four songs of both concerts in exactly the same time.

Track listing

For the 1986 CD re-issue "Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House"
#"It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:31
#"Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Jimmy Mundy, Illinois Jacquet, Al Stillman) – 2:42
#"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:01
#"These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" (Jack Strachy, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) – 3:46
#"Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:45
#"Goody Goody" (Johnny Mercer, Matty Malneck) – 1:54
#"Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:06
#"Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 2:08
#"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf) – 6:12
#"It's All Right With Me" – 2:31
#"Don'cha Go Way Mad" – 2:42
#"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – 3:01
#"These Foolish Things" – 3:46
#"Ill Wind" – 2:45
#"Goody Goody" – 1:54
#"Moonlight in Vermont" – 3:06
#"Stompin' at the Savoy" – 6:12
#"Oh, Lady be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:24

Personnel

Tracks 1-16

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* Oscar Peterson - Piano
* Herb Ellis - Guitar
* Ray Brown - Bass
* Jo Jones - Drums

Tracks 17-28

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* Roy Eldridge - Trumpet
* J. J. Johnson - Trombone
* Sonny Stitt - Alto Sax
* Lester Young - Tenor Sax
* Illinois Jacquet - Tenor Sax
* Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Sax
* Stan Getz - Tenor Sax
* Flip Phillips - Tenor Sax
* Oscar Peterson - Piano
* Herb Ellis - Guitar
* Ray Brown - Bass
* Connie Kay - Drums