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Twelve Nights in Hollywood, Vol. 1 & 2
Twelve Nights in Hollywood, Vol. 1 & 2
Genre: Jazz
 
For Twelve Nights In Hollywood, Verve Select dug into the vault to collect the best of her performances across her extended 10-night 1961 engagement at Los Angeles' Crescendo Club - which originally resulted in the hit LP ...  more »

     
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Title: Twelve Nights in Hollywood, Vol. 1 & 2
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Verve
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 602527326665

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For Twelve Nights In Hollywood, Verve Select dug into the vault to collect the best of her performances across her extended 10-night 1961 engagement at Los Angeles' Crescendo Club - which originally resulted in the hit LP Ella In Hollywood - and her two-night return engagement the following year, presenting an unforgettable experience that puts you right in the front seat at the club, without repeating any performances from the original album. It includes several tracks never before heard by Ella live, tracks she had just recorded or had yet to record in the studio, and old chestnuts she revisited in a fresh way.
Track listing:
Disc 1
1. Introduction
2. Lover Come Back To Me
3. Too Close For Comfort
4. Little White Lies
5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
6. Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
7. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
8. I Found A New Baby
9. On A Slow Boat To China
10. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
11. Perdido
12. I've Got A Crush On You
13. But Not For Me
14. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
15. Across The Alley From The Alamo
16. I'm Glad There Is You
17. 'Round Midnight
18. Take The "A" Train
19. Mr. Paganini
Disc 2
1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2. I Can't Get Started
3. Give Me The Simple Life
4. Caravan
5. One For My Baby
6. Lorelei
7. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
8. Witchcraft
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe
11. It's De-Lovely
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. That Old Black Magic
14. Lullaby Of Birdland
15. Ella Introduces The Band
16. Imagination
17. Blue Moon
18. Joe Williams' Blues

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CD Reviews

An economical alternative to the box set
T. Davis | Seattle, WA | 05/25/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This compact set of two discs, a Barnes & Noble exclusive, fits into a single CD case. It constitutes the first two CDs in the complete "Twelve Nights in Hollywood" box set. Together with "Vol. 3 & 4," these two sets present all of the music in the box set but in a more compact form, and they include many of the heretofore unseen photos in the bigger box. I picked up both sets at B&N for the promotional price of $18.99 each, saving considerably over the cost of the big box.



These cozy dates, never released until this year, come from a Los Angeles club called the Crescendo in 1961 and 1962. While the performances could have been a hit originally, producer Norman Granz unfortunately gave them short shrift: a single poorly-selected and poorly-mastered album that flopped commercially. The tapes sank into the vaults, not to be unearthed until jazz researcher Phil Schaap dug into the archives in 1988. He found 14 hours of California recordings made over 12 days, along with unheard live sets recorded in Rome and Chicago in 1958. Another 22 years would pass before Richard Seidel, the producer of the boxed set, assembled four CDs from the Hollywood tapes. In all, the CDs contain 76 songs, both swinging and sentimental. Ella is a joy throughout: creative and playful in her phrasing and scatting, by turns relaxed and spirited in her mood. All four volumes are essential acquisitions for Fitzgerald fans."
The Absolute Best
L. T. Quirk | 04/29/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are an Ella fan then this will end up being one of your

favorite CD's and if you are not one yet you will be. She was just back in the US from a long tour and did a relaxed series of sets that I think are the best versions of many of her standards. You cant go wrong with this CD."