Mack the knife - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
Some things you never get tired of hearing.
I like this version even better then the one she did several years before.
From its very first performance back in 1928 with lotte lenya, through its pop version with Bobby Darin and then Louis Armstrong, they sang the song, in different styles but still in one key. Ella said screw that and she modulate throughout. Then suddenly it became a tune that whenever any one called you you knew you'd be going through he circle of 5ths while playing it.
From its very first performance back in 1928 with lotte lenya, through its pop version with Bobby Darin and then Louis Armstrong, they sang the song, in different styles but still in one key. Ella said screw that and she modulate throughout. Then suddenly it became a tune that whenever any one called you you knew you'd be going through he circle of 5ths while playing it.
Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur is a 1967 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the big band of Duke Ellington.
It was recorded live at the Jazz à Juan festival at Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera, between June 26 and July 29, 1966. Earlier in the year, Fitzgerald and Ellington had recorded their only other live album together, The Stockholm Concert, 1966, in Stockholm.
The album was released as a double-LP in 1967. In 1998, Verve Records released the concert on compact disc, in both a two-CD version and a complete eight-CD version.
Cat Anderson, Cootie Williams, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington (tp) Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper (tb) Jimmy Hamilton (cl,ts) Russell Procope (as,cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (bar,cl,b-cl) Duke Ellington (p) Jimmy Jones (p-1) replaces Ellington, John Lamb (b) Sam Woodyard (d)
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