Ella Fitzgerald - Love Letters From Ella (2007 Remaster) (FLAC)

All Tracks Previously Unreleased.

These are all songs that were recorded for Norman Grantz's Pablo label in the seventies and early eighties. In those days, no matter how many songs were recorded at a session, record producers would ration us to only ten to twelve songs per album and discard the rest. Few record producers were more parsimonious than Norman Grantz. I have just ripped one of Ella's albums on Pablo and it contains a miserly nine songs. The songs on this album are not 'alternate takes' or in any way 'seconds', just songs that were deemed surplus to the 'ration'.

Gregg Field, now a partner at the Concord Music Group and co-producer of this album, is also one of the world's top drummers. He was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra in the early eighties and part of Ella's permanent trio. He knew that a lot of Ella's recordings on Pablo were unreleased, he played on many, so he set about finding them.

The result is this themed 'Love Song' album (which suggests that he found a lot more Pablo tracks) released in 2007 to celebrate what would have been Ella's 90th birthday.

Ella with:

Count Basie & His Orchestra - tracks 1 & 10.
London Symphony Orchestra - track 2.
London Symphony Orchestra & Joe Pass - tracks 4 & 8.
London Symphony Orchestra & Scott Hamilton - track 6.
Joe Pass - track 7.
Andre Previn & Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson - track 9.
Ella's Trio (Michael Lang: Piano, Gregg Field: Drums, Chuck Berghofer: Bass) Tracks 3 & 5.

01 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
02 Cry Me A River
03 You Turned the Tables on Me
04 I've Got the World On a String
05 Witchcraft
06 My Old Flame
07 The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
08 Take Love Easy
09 Our Love Is Here To Stay
10 Some Other Spring