Twelve Nights in Hollywood |  | Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Label: Hip-O Select
Category: Music
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 2025
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 7.4 x 0.8
UPC: 602527044026
EAN: 0602527044026
ASIN: B002IRBGYC
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Introduction - Ella Fitzgerald, | | • | Lover Come Back to Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Hammerstein, Oscar | | • | Too Close for Comfort - Ella Fitzgerald, Bock, Jerry | | • | Little White Lies - Ella Fitzgerald, Donaldson, Walter | | • | On the Sunny Side of the Street - Ella Fitzgerald, Fields, Dorothy | | • | Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold | | • | Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald, Warfield, Charles | | • | I Found a New Baby - Ella Fitzgerald, Palmer, Jack | | • | On a Slow Boat to China - Ella Fitzgerald, Loesser, Frank | | • | My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | Perdido - Ella Fitzgerald, Drake, Ervin | | • | I've Got a Crush on You - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | But Not for Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Fain, Sammy | | • | Across the Alley from the Alamo - Ella Fitzgerald, Greene, Joe | | • | I'm Glad There Is You - Ella Fitzgerald, Dorsey, Jimmy | | • | 'Round Midnight - Ella Fitzgerald, Hanighen, Bernie | | • | Take the 'A' Train - Ella Fitzgerald, Strayhorn, Billy | | • | Mr. Paganini [Mono Version] - Ella Fitzgerald, Coslow, Sam |
Disc 2
| • | Nice Work If You Can Get It - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | I Can't Get Started - Ella Fitzgerald, Duke, Vernon | | • | Give Me the Simple Life - Ella Fitzgerald, Bloom, Rube | | • | Caravan - Ella Fitzgerald, Ellington, Duke | | • | One for My Baby - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold | | • | Lorelei - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald, Alexander, Van | | • | Witchcraft - Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman, Cy | | • | Gone with the Wind - Ella Fitzgerald, Madgison, Herbert | | • | Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold | | • | It's De-Lovely - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | The Lady Is a Tramp - Ella Fitzgerald, Hart, Lorenz | | • | That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold | | • | Lullaby of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald, Shearing, George | | • | Ella Introduces the Band - Ella Fitzgerald, | | • | Imagination - Ella Fitzgerald, Burke, Johnny | | • | Blue Moon - Ella Fitzgerald, Hart, Lorenz | | • | Joe Williams' Blues - Ella Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Ella |
Disc 3
| • | The Lady's in Love with You - Ella Fitzgerald, Lane, Burton | | • | Love Is Here to Stay - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | Come Rain or Come Shine - Ella Fitzgerald, Arlen, Harold | | • | Anything Goes - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | This Could Be the Start of Something Big - Ella Fitzgerald, Allen, Steve [1] | | • | Candy - Ella Fitzgerald, Alex C. Kramer | | • | Little Girl Blue - Ella Fitzgerald, Hart, Lorenz | | • | You're Driving Me Crazy - Ella Fitzgerald, Donaldson, Walter | | • | It's All Right with Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me) - Ella Fitzgerald, Ellington, Duke | | • | 'S Wonderful - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | How High the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald, Hamilton, Nancy | | • | Deep Purple - Ella Fitzgerald, DeRose, Peter | | • | In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Ella Fitzgerald, Hilliard, Bob | | • | Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald, Blitzstein, Marc | | • | Exactly Like You - Ella Fitzgerald, Fields, Dorothy | | • | Rock It for Me [Mono Version] - Ella Fitzgerald, Werner, Kay | | • | Stompin' at the Savoy [Mono Version] - Ella Fitzgerald, Goodman, Benny | | • | Love for Sale [Mono Version] - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | St. Louis Blues [Mono Version] - Ella Fitzgerald, Handy, W.C. |
Disc 4
| • | All of Me [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Marks, Gerald | | • | Hard Hearted Hannah [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Ager, Milton | | • | Broadway [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Byrd, Billy | | • | My Kind of Boy [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Bricusse, Leslie | | • | It Had to Be You [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Jones, Isham | | • | C'est Magnifique [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | How Long Has This Been Going On? [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Gershwin, George | | • | When Your Lover Has Gone [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Swan, Einar A. | | • | Taking a Chance on Love [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Duke, Vernon | | • | Good Morning Heartache [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Drake, Ervin | | • | Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie! [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, McDonald, Ballard | | • | Hallelujah I Love Him So [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Charles, Ray | | • | Angel Eyes [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Dennis, Matt | | • | Ol' Man Mose [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Louis | | • | Teach Me Tonight [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Cahn, Sammy | | • | Medley: Too Darn Hot/Ella's Twist [Mono Version][*][Medley] - Ella Fitzgerald, | | • | Too Darn Hot [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Porter, Cole | | • | Bewitched [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Hart, Lorenz | | • | Bill Bailey [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Cannon, Hughie | | • | Bill Bailey Reprise [Mono Version][*] - Ella Fitzgerald, Cannon, Hughie |
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Album Description
Ella Fitzgerald's Twelve Nights In Hollywood is an unprecedented release - a 4-CD box set of 73 completely unreleased live recordings from Ella in her relaxed, absolute prime. 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. Standouts among many across the four discs include "But Not For Me," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Perdido," "How High the Moon" and "When Your Lover Has Gone." Twelve Nights In Hollywood is housed in exquisite packaging - same 7 3/8" square dimensions as the Oscar Peterson set, complete with extensive liner notes, detailed annotations, rare photos, and specially commissioned album cover art by Hall of Fame illustrator Bart Forbes. There have been several Ella live albums, but this is indeed unlike any other.
Album Description
4CDs containing 73 completely unreleased live recordings from Ella in her relaxed, absolute prime. The set collects the best 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. The set contains extensive liner notes by former Verve producer and executive Richard Seidel, detailed annotations, rare photos, and specially commissioned album cover art by Hall of Fame illustrator Bart Forbes.
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 Ella live in an intimate setting - What a find! November 28, 2009
T. Davis (Seattle, WA)
87 out of 91 found this review helpful
These cozy dates come from a Los Angeles club called the Crescendo in 1961 and 1962, two of Ella's peak years. Only one of the pristine tracks has ever been released. Why did Verve take nearly half a century to put out this treasure?
It's a case of more profitable material, a wealth of studio recordings, crowding out excellent performances that could have been a hit originally. Alas, producer Norman Granz 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. At that point, Verve released a single CD, "Ella in Rome," which was a huge success, but then the label got busy with rereleases of her songbook series.
Finally, this year, Richard Seidel, the producer of this boxed set, listened to the tapes and decided to assemble four CDs containing 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. She even succeeds at the blues, a form she was not particularly known for.
What are you waiting for? This is a glorious find and an essential acquisition for the Fitzgerald fan.
Twelve Nights in Hollywood-- just in time for Twelve Days of Christmas November 28, 2009
Singin' Sphinx (Berkeley CA USA)
39 out of 43 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful and vivid recording with the singer up-front, a supportive pianist and percussionists, fresh, light, and delightful. Crystal clear. What a treat -- who would've expected to hear more great Ella after all this time?
Ella at Her Best November 29, 2009
R.L.
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
Ella shows in this treasure trove why Sinatra always said she was the best. In her prime, live in a cozy nightclub setting, with a jazz combo backing. And an excellent recording. Who could ask for anything more.
The BEST! It does not get any better that THIS! December 24, 2009
Thumper (Indianapolis, Indiana USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have to say up front that I am a MAJOR fan of Ella. She's my number 2 favorite singer of all times. I can not get enough of her. Most of the time I use the internet, I am looking--praying--for any news on the next Ella Fitzgerald release. Not only was I over the moon when I head of Twelve Nights in Hollywood, I am beyond ecstatic now that I have finally gotten my hands on it (downloaded it)!! I am beyond LOVING it! The sound quality is excellent. The previous reviewers were so right, there is a real intimate quality to this box set. I feel as if I was right there in the club, seated in an excellent seat, enjoying the show, wonderful remastering job on the recordings.
And then there's Ella. She simply knocks 'em dead. She even slay me, all these decades after these recordings were made. Her voice is at its peek. She's groovin' and her band is groovin' right along with her. The song lineup will not surprise any of her loyal fans, but Ella is a real singer, so no matter how many times she sings Mack the Knife, (Give Me) The Simple Life, or Lorelie, the songs are always fresh and swinging. Naturally, she does mess up. Frankly, I was looking forward to the mistakes, for Ella's mistakes are when music, spirit join into one big swinging party. Listen to her stumbling through the lyrics of the song Candy, which was made popular by Big Maybelle, and that Ella magic is sprinkled all over that song the same way Ella does with Mack the Knife. Then there's the Ella chatter, that's what gives this box set its special charm. Wisely, the producer did not cut it, as with some of her other concert CDs. I LOVED IT!
All I can say is that if there was a way to rate this box seet more than 5 stars I would. I do know that I have played this set, all 4 CDs, and listen to it in one sitting! So, get it, sit down with a nice drink or glass of wine, sit back and enjoy. It don't get any better than this!
AN ABSOLUTE JAZZ MUST-HAVE!!! but, terrible packaging January 30, 2010
LCB
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
i agree with many who've commented so far - this collection is simply without peer. AMAZING. BREATHTAKING. it's a side of ella that simply is not revealed in this way in any other available recording. she's absolutely at the TOP of her game - and for FOUR CDS' WORTH of material! oh, it's just so joy-inducing. :-) and the recording quality is so amazing! luscious and warm and cozy and full - listening to it, i really do feel like i'm sitting right next to ella. :-) get this collection right now! i visited the hip-o select site to find out more about this set, and there it's labeled as being "limited edition: 8000 copies". so who knows if they'll be around for long.
BUT - and this is a "but" that i agree with on many others - the packaging is a huge fail. i'm a designer myself, and something i always consider when designing something is the context. have the designers of this "book" ever seen a CD shelf? could they really not have made it four jewel-box CDs with perhaps an accompanying jewelbox-sized booklet? also, i, like others, find the way the CDs are held in the book to be very problematic. the CDs are hard to get out or put back in; impossible to take out without touching the optical side of the disc; and i'm worried that the CDs may get scratched while i pull them out/in. annoying, to say the least.
but, i still gave it 5 stars - because otherwise, it would've been worthy of 6! :-)
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