Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine of Your Love (2014/2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine of Your Love (2014/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:56 minutes | 980 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Sunshine of Your Love is a 1969 live album by Ella Fitzgerald. Recorded at the Venetian Room, The Fairmont San Francisco, in October 1968. The main body of works performed here are contemporary pop songs from the late 1960s. Originally released on the German found jazz label MPS Records the album was re-issued on CD, with alternative artwork, in 1996 by Verve Records.Ella Fitzgerald singing Eric Clapton’s “Sunshine of Your Love”, or the Beatles’ “Hey Jude”? Something of a revelation for those who know Fitzgerald as purely a jazz singer and haven’t had the pleasure to listen to her MPS live recording “Sunshine of Your Love”, yet. Ella’s pristine clarity of earlier years, now tinged with a throaty worldliness, is a perfect foil to her choices from the world of rock and pop. It also adds new depth to such standards as “Give Me the Simple Life”, “Old Devil Moon”, and Burt Bachrach’s “A House is Not a Home”. Recorded “live”, the album is divided into a big band set and Ella with her long-time accompaniment, the Tommy Flanagan trio. Pianist Flanagan is simply one of the all-time greats. After listening to this, how can you not be a fan of Ella’s?

This is an album for which I recorded Ella Fitzgerald live at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. I edited the usual night-club patter by the artist, audience conversation, and, particularly, applause as sharply as possible. I think in today’s context having an LP cluttered and consumed by extraneous matter is unworkable; people who buy records want the artist to get on with it and go from one number to the next as quickly as possible. Obviously, beginning and ending applause were unavoidable, but at least the action of Ella’s routine wasn’t appreciably retarded. The advantage of recording before a live audience for an artist like Ella is immense because of the emotional Iift she receives from an audience – so I suggest that in this album you have the best of both worlds: optimum result by the artist and as near studio conditions as possible.” (Norman Granz)

“During her long career, every once in awhile Ella Fitzgerald would attempt to “get with it” and record contemporary pop tunes. In 1968 for a live concert with a big band and the Tommy Flanagan Trio, the First Lady of the American Song did what she could with such unsuitable material as “Hey Jude,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” “Watch What Happens” and “A House Is Not a Home.” The results (despite her sincerity) sometime borders on the embarassing; there is no way anyone can swing “Hey Jude.” A few of the other numbers (particularly “Give Me the Simple Life,” “Old Devil Moon” and “Love You Madly”) are of a higher quality but when Ella tries to turn “Alright, Okay, You Win” into funk, it is time to switch records.” (Scott Yanow, AMG)

Tracklist:

1-1. Ella Fitzgerald – Hey Jude (03:50)
1-2. Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine of Your Love (03:19)
1-3. Ella Fitzgerald – This Girl’s in Love with You (04:27)
1-4. Ella Fitzgerald – Watch What Happens (03:57)
1-5. Ella Fitzgerald – Alright Okay You Win (03:48)
1-6. Ella Fitzgerald – Give Me the Simple Life (02:01)
1-7. Ella Fitzgerald – Useless Landscape (05:10)
1-8. Ella Fitzgerald – Old Devil Moon (04:17)
1-9. Ella Fitzgerald – Don’cha Go Way Mad (03:34)
1-10. Ella Fitzgerald – A House Is Not a Home (04:11)
1-11. Ella Fitzgerald – Trouble Is a Man (04:11)
1-12. Ella Fitzgerald – Love You Madly (03:06)

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