Classic Records / Verve Records Audiophile 200gr
This early '60s studio session captures Ella Fitzgerald moving toward the smaller, more pointedly jazz-inflected ensembles that would shape her career in her final decades. After the lush orchestrations of her classic series of composer songbooks, which found her collaborating with the best arrangers, the intimate scale and easy interplay of a crack band provide a wonderful platform for the spirited performances here. That Ella herself savored the opportunity is reflected in a program that includes Thelonious Monk's "After Midnight" and a breezy, potent ride through the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie anthem, "Night In Tunisia." With a mix of bona fide standards and revived swing classics, this is gem, cause enough to clap hands. --Sam Sutherland
Classic Records stereo edition reveals the First Lady of Song at her most intensely swinging and graceful level. John Tynan's 1962 Down Beat review calls this LP "...a superior representation of the singer as a jazz interpreter. This set is one of her best."
"Clap Hands includes the most breathtaking vocalizing of 'Round Midnight' and possibly the most intimate sonics of any jazz vocal record in history." - Fred Kaplan, The Absolute Sound, December 2005 (included in Kaplan's "Best-Sounding Jazz LPs")
Side 1.
1.Night in Tunisia (4:06)
2.You're My Thrill (3:35)
3.My Reverie (3:16)
4.Stella By Starlight (3:16)
5.A Round Midnight (3:28)
6.Jersey bounce (3:30)
7.Signing Off (3:42)
Side 2.
8.Cry Me A River (4:12)
9.This Year's Kisses (2:15)
10.Good Morning Heartache (4:19)
11.(I Was) Born To Be Blue (2:41)
12.Clap Hands, here Comes Charlie! (2:41)
13.Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (6:13)
14.Music Goes A Round and Around (2:26)
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