Melodie Jazz Classic
2004
The Chronogical (1952)
About This Album
The 13th installment in the Classics Ella Fitzgerald chronology documents her recording activity during a period extending from early January to late November 1952. The two opening tracks constitute a veritable scat fest with accompaniment by the Ray Charles Singers and a small band anchored by organist Bill Doggett and pianist Hank Jones. The next nine titles document Fitzgerald's continuing collaborations with bandleader Sy Oliver. Matt Dennis' ballad "Angel Eyes" is rendered beautifully, even if it is nestled among silly titles like "Goody Goody," "A Guy Is a Guy," and "Ding-Dong Boogie," a rowdy novelty better suited for Teresa Brewer; it benefits greatly from a gutbucket sax solo by Sam "The Man" Taylor. Accompanied by Bobby Orton's Teen-Aces, Ella makes her own stunning "Contribution to the Blues," revives Una Mae Carlisle's magnum opus "Walking by the River," and presents "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" as a West Indian dance number bristling with bongos and conga drums. This was not Ella's first venture into Caribbean territory; her infamous calypso outing "Stone Cold Dead in the Market," recorded with Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 during the mid-'40s, is still a force with which to be reckoned (see 1945-1947, Classics 998).
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