Ella '68. Norman Granz presents An Evening with Ella Fitzgerald. Tee Carson piano, Keter Betts bass, Freddy Waits drums. [Program guide 1.2.-6.3.1968].

Cover slightly rubbed, otherwise good and very clean. - Text bilingual English and German. - From the text: At a press conference for her recording of Gershwin songs, a London Observer reporter asked Mitzi Gaynor, what she planned to sing next: Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart or Irving Berlin. Mitzi Gaynor answered, with a smile, that she planned to stop with the Gershwin recording. �There are no more good songs left, which could be explored. Ella has already produced the 'definite editions' of all of them.� �Definitive edition� - that says it. It is remarkable how confidently Ella has chosen well-known or almost forgotten songs from the repertoire of the Broadway Musical theatre or american popular music, smoothed and dressed them, discarded anything that might be old-fashioned and given them their �definitive� interpretations and, with that, a little bit of immortality. Most of these melodies were written for given dramatics situations within a musical. They underscore dramatic moments, specific situations, love scenes. They suggested tragedy or acted as a sort of spot-light for humour. Ella has tested their capacity as �songs�. Years after their performance in the theatre, after the musical itself is long forgotten, along comes Ella Fitzgerald to bring them up-todate and into the consciousness of our age.