So for jazz newcomers unfamiliar with the Songbook, here's an introduction to the work of composer-lyricist Cole Porter. This classic 2-disc set is an aural encyclopedia of Porter's songs, beautifully ...

Fitzgerald reinvented her career by recording Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, thus starting a series of Songbook albums that featured her interpretations of the works of great ...

Speaking of indispensable collections, Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbooks should probably ... for Sale" at a fairly breezy clip; as she sings, it's great fun to listen for those little ...

Explore the catalog of “The First Lady of Song” with tracks chosen by Valerie June, Yaya Bey, Imani Perry and 13 more writers ...

This was true from the first album in this series, 1956’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, which entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In Ella’s hands, and with charts by ...

So Judith Tick is talking nonsense when she says Ella made Porter swing. Frank Sinatra had been swinging his way through Cole’s numbers for half a decade and more by the time Fitzgerald started ...

Those include such top 40-charting efforts as Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book, Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin and Ella in Hollywood.

Fitzgerald recorded in 1955 “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook,” making her a pioneer in the canon that would become known as the Great American Songbook. Many “Songbook ...

Here’s just a sampling: The best place to start is with what even Porter considered the definitive collection: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (Verve), recorded in 1956 and ...

Five days after her performance at Zardi’s, she began recording her legendary debut album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book, which was inducted into the Library of Congress ...

Fitzgerald's chart span on the Billboard 200 now extends 51 years to the debut of "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook" in 1956. On the Top Jazz Albums tally, "Love Letters from Ella ...

All Through the Night; Anything Goes; Miss Otis Regrets; Too Darn Hot; In the Still of the Night; I Get a Kick Out of You; Do I Love You; Always True to You in My Fashion;Let's Do It; Just One of ...