Ella and Basie!

Infobox Album|
Name = Ella and Basie!
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald


Released = 1963
Recorded = July 16 to July 17 1963
Genre = Jazz
Length = 40:57
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:l8ge4j271wav link]
Last album = "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook"
(1963)
This album = " Ella and Basie! "
(1963)
Next album = "These Are the Blues"
(1963)

"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.

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!", "Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph", "Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook", and "Ella in Hollywood" as one of Ella's greatest recordings.

Track listing

For the 1997 Verve CD Reissue 539059.

# "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:42
# "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:40
# "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) – 3:20
# "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 5:04
# "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt) – 4:04
# "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 3:10
# "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:13
# "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 3:57
# "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:30
# "My Last Affair" (Haven Johnson) – 3:11
# "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Razaf, Waller) – 3:06
# "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:00
#: "Studio outtakes not included on the original 1963 release:"
# "My Last Affair" – 3:26
# "My Last Affair" – 3:39
# "Robbins Nest" (Breakdown) (Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Sir Charles Thompson) – 1:22
# "Robbins Nest" – 3:40
# "Robbins Nest" – 3:09
# "Robbins Nest" – 2:55

Personnel

Recorded from July 16 to July 17 1963, at A & R Studios, NYC
* Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
* The Count Basie Orchestra
* Sonny Cohn - trumpet
* Al Aarons - trumpet
* 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
* Marshall Royal - clarinet, alto saxophone
* Buddy Catlett - double bass
* Sonny Payne - drums
* Count Basie - piano
* Quincy Jones - arranger