Michael Fremer Rated 9/10 Music, 9/10 Sonics in his August 2011 reviews on musicangle.com!
Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the February 2011 & August 2011 Issues of Stereophile!
Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
This is a wonderful live album. Recorded toward the end of Ella's career, by concert's end it is apparent that she has about lost her voice, but not the audience's adoration. The album showcases her in various settings: with the (obviously) reconstituted Chick Webb Orchestra, with Ellis Larkins, with Joe Pass and with Tommy Flanagan (of course); the album also has some nods to the Webb Orchestra, noteworthy for late-career blowing by "Lockjaw" Davis.
Highlights: "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Good Morning Heartache" (an intended and most worthy tribute to Lady Day), "Miss Otis Regrets," the first encore of "Some of these Days," and intended set-ender of Ella doing what she does best, scatting through "Lemon Drop."
"Stan Tonkel here pulls it off brilliantly, mixing just the right amount of direct and reverberant sound to give you an intimate, yet warm and reverberant, spatially rich presentation. Images are three dimensional, solid and transparent on a satisyingly large soundstage with the audience well-miked and just the right distance away to convey the hall's size. Most importantly, Ella, center stage, sounds just right..." - Michael Fremer, musicangle.com
Features:
Double LP
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Gatefold jacket
180g Vinyl Analogue
Limited Edition
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Selections:
LP 1
1. I've Gotta Be Me
2. Good Morning Heartache
3. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
4. Don't Worry 'bout Me/ These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
5. Any Old Blues
6. A-Tisket A-Tasket
7. Indian Summer
8. Smooth Sailing
9. You Turned the Tables On Me
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. I've Got a Crush On You
LP 2
1. I Can't Get Started/The Young Man With The Horn/'Round Midnight
2. Star Dust
3. C Jam Blues
4. Taking a Chance On Love/I'm In the Mood For Love
5. Lemon Drop
6. Some of These Days
7. People
Recorded July 5, 1973 at Carnegie Hall.
Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the February 2011 & August 2011 Issues of Stereophile!
Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
This is a wonderful live album. Recorded toward the end of Ella's career, by concert's end it is apparent that she has about lost her voice, but not the audience's adoration. The album showcases her in various settings: with the (obviously) reconstituted Chick Webb Orchestra, with Ellis Larkins, with Joe Pass and with Tommy Flanagan (of course); the album also has some nods to the Webb Orchestra, noteworthy for late-career blowing by "Lockjaw" Davis.
Highlights: "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Good Morning Heartache" (an intended and most worthy tribute to Lady Day), "Miss Otis Regrets," the first encore of "Some of these Days," and intended set-ender of Ella doing what she does best, scatting through "Lemon Drop."
"Stan Tonkel here pulls it off brilliantly, mixing just the right amount of direct and reverberant sound to give you an intimate, yet warm and reverberant, spatially rich presentation. Images are three dimensional, solid and transparent on a satisyingly large soundstage with the audience well-miked and just the right distance away to convey the hall's size. Most importantly, Ella, center stage, sounds just right..." - Michael Fremer, musicangle.com
Features:
Double LP
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Gatefold jacket
180g Vinyl Analogue
Limited Edition
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Selections:
LP 1
1. I've Gotta Be Me
2. Good Morning Heartache
3. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
4. Don't Worry 'bout Me/ These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
5. Any Old Blues
6. A-Tisket A-Tasket
7. Indian Summer
8. Smooth Sailing
9. You Turned the Tables On Me
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. I've Got a Crush On You
LP 2
1. I Can't Get Started/The Young Man With The Horn/'Round Midnight
2. Star Dust
3. C Jam Blues
4. Taking a Chance On Love/I'm In the Mood For Love
5. Lemon Drop
6. Some of These Days
7. People
Recorded July 5, 1973 at Carnegie Hall.
