Ella Fitzgerald

Reviews

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas

A legendary voice combined with legendary songs of yuletide glee. [20 November 2007]

Ella Fitzgerald: Love Letters from Ella

One of the 20th century's great voices gets the Starbucks treatment on some previously unreleased tracks. [1 August 2007]

Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Cole Porter Songbook

Abridged versions of Fitzgerald’s songbooks don’t translate to an iTunes world. [18 May 2007]

Ella Fitzgerald: Jazz Icons: Ella Fiztgerald Live in 57 and 63 [DVD]

This previously unreleased archival footage gives audiences a rare look into the legendary live performances of one of jazz's all-time greatest vocalists. [1 March 2007]

Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book

One of the final pieces in the laudable songbook project, this disc reveals its own lack of interest. Fitzgerald may be pitch-perfect, but emotionally it falls a little flat. [15 April 2005]

Ella Fitzgerald: Cocktail Hour

Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday, apart from being the most important and best-known jazz singers of the last century, represent two sides of an interesting coin.

[3 May 1999]

Ella Fitzgerald, Rhythm Is My Business

It is a non-stop, up-tempo swing fest sure to delight the hard-core jazz aficionado, as well as the 1990s retro hipsters.