Fitzgerald, Ella: How High the Moon LP

Verve and Impulse! Records launch the new Vital Vinyl series with UMe, celebrating essential jazz LPs from the enduring catalogues of the two iconic labels. Throughout 2019, Verve and Impulse! will be making no fewer than 40 key albums from the 1950s, '60

The old adage that opposites attract couldn't be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, whose album collaborations for Verve Records, in the late 50s, resulted in some of jazz's finest and most memorable duets. Texturally, their voic

Ella Fitzgerald singing Eric Clapton's "Sunshine of Your Love," or the Beatles' "Hey Jude"? is something of a revelation for those who know the First Lady of Song as purely a jazz singer. Ella's pristine clarity of earlier years, now tinged with a throaty

The previously-unreleased Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook is drawn from the beloved jazz vocal stylist's performance at the famous venue on August 16, 1958. This came just a few months after she recorded the classic Sings The Irving

The old adage that opposites attract couldn't be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, whose album collaborations for Verve Records, in the late 50s, resulted in some of jazz's finest and most memorable duets. Texturally, their voic