Ella Fitzgerald with the London Symphony Orchestra - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

CD: Someone To Watch Over Me - Verve 2017
Song: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)

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que belleza exquisitez y hermosa interpretación nadie y nunca cantada mejor que la diva ella

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Yessss Ella in 2018 💗

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[Left a note with Tony Bennett website this night:] A propos nothing but great arrangers who have worked with Tony and Lady Gaga. During her lifetime, Ella Fitzgerald never got to work with Jorge Calandrelli. Yet at this moment, Siriusly Sinatra satellite radio is playing Jorge's gorgeous arrangement for Ella's 'definitive' studio recording of Rodgers & Hart's BEWITCHED BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED -- with London Symphony musicians added at Abbey Road Studio (2017). Concerning the orchestrator, Wikipedia notes: Jorge Calandrelli is an Argentinian-born composer, arranger and conductor known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Arturo Sandoval, Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Lady Gaga and John Legend. He has won 6 Grammy Awards and has received 28 nominations. Wikipedia Born: December 31, 1939 (age 81 years), Argentina Just in case Mr. Bennett hasn't heard this gem.

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[Ella's Wiki entry now includes an informed note from a Sinatra fan, that wasn't there before:] Possibly Fitzgerald's greatest unrealized collaboration (in terms of popular music) was a studio or live album with Frank Sinatra. The two appeared on the same stage only periodically over the years, in television specials in 1958 and 1959, and again on 1967's A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim, a show that also featured Antônio Carlos Jobim. Pianist Paul Smith has said, "Ella loved working with [Frank]. Sinatra gave her his dressing-room on A Man and His Music and couldn't do enough for her." When asked, Norman Granz would cite "complex contractual reasons" for the fact that the two artists never recorded together. Fitzgerald's appearance with Sinatra and Count Basie in June 1974 for a series of concerts at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, was seen as an important incentive for Sinatra to return from his self-imposed retirement of the early 1970s. The shows were a great success, and September 1975 saw them gross $1,000,000 in two weeks on Broadway, in a triumvirate with the Count Basie Orchestra." ---- As for this recording, I believe Ella would have loved this orchestration -- by Tony Bennett's favorite latter-day arranger, Jorge Calandrelli (they've won multiple GRAMMYs for their 12 album collaborations). Really, isn't this marvelous? Thanks to the fan who shared this with us at KZbin.

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