The Essential Jazz Singers (1952)

About this title: This box contains three CD samplers that are also available individually. Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are featured on 16 selections apiece that are drawn from their Verve recordings. While Lady Day is primarily heard during her declining years, bolstered by all-star swing combos (with the exception of "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," which is an orchestral track from her final recording session), Sassy is in prime form, whether joined by an orchestra, a big band (including Count Basie's), the Jimmy Jones Trio or dueting with her lifelong friend Billy Eckstine. Ella's program is ... read more

Tracks:

1. Oh, Lady Be Good [Slow Version] [Gershwin/Gershwin]
2. Oh, Lady Be Good [Scat Version][Live] [Gershwin/Gershwin]
3. There's a Lull in My Life [Revel/Gordon]
4. Little Jazz [Eldridge/Harding]
5. Drop Me off in Harlem [Ellington/Kenny]
6. Angel Eyes [Brent/Dennis]
7. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead [Arlen/Harburg]
8. A-Tisket, A-Tasket [Live] [Fitzgerald/Alexande]
9. Summertime [Gershwin/Gershwin]
10. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall [Roberts/Fisher]
11. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most [Landesman/Wolf]
12. Pick Yourself Up [Kern/Fields]
13. Cool Breeze [Dameron/Gillespie]
14. Imagine My Frustration [Ellington/Strayhorn]
15. Mack the Knife [Live] [Weill/Brecht/Blitzs]
16. Dream [Mercer]
17. Love for Sale [Porter]
18. Sophisticated Lady [Ellington/Parish/Mi]
19. Lover, Come Back to Me [Romberg/Hammerstein]
20. I Don't Want to Cry Anymore [Schertzinger]
21. Trav'lin' Light [Mercer/Mundy/Young]
22. Say It Isn't So [Berlin]
23. When Your Lover Has Gone [Swan]
24. Body and Soul [Green/Heyman/Eyton/]
25. Good Morning Heartache [Drake/Fisher/Higgin]
26. Remember [Berlin]
27. Willow Weep for Me [Ronell]
28. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues [Arlen/Koehler]
29. Love Me or Leave Me [Donaldson/Kahn]
30. I Can't Face the Music [Bloom/Koehler]
31. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [Arlen/Mercer]
32. Don't Worry 'Bout Me [Bloom/Koehler]
33. Misty [Burke/Garner]
34. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream [Hodges/Ellington/Ge]
35. Make Yourself Comfortable [Merrill]
36. All of Me [Simons/Marks]
37. Last Night When We Were Young [Arlen/Harburg]
38. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) [Jobim/Lees]
39. Speak Low [Live] [Weill/Nash]
40. A Sinner Kissed an Angel [David/Shayne]
41. No 'Count Blues [Jones/Vaughan]
42. My Man's Gone Now [Gershwin/Gershwin]
43. I Cried for You [Freed/Arnheim/Lyman]
44. Broken Hearted Melody [David/Edwards]
45. You're Not the Kind [Hudson/Mills]
46. Always [Berlin]
47. Just One of Those Things [Porter]
48. My Ship [Weill/Gershwin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.