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Ella and Basie! is a 1963 (see 1963 in music) studio album by the American Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, with arrangements by Quincy Jones.

Surprisingly, Ella and the Basie band had only recorded together once before, on the 1957 album One o'Clock Jump.

This album was the only time that Fitzgerald and Jones worked together.

This album is revered alongside Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph, Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook and Ella in Hollywood as one of Ella's greatest recordings.

Track listing

For the 1997 Verve CD Reissue 539059.
  1. Honeysuckle Rose” (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 2:42
  2. “'Deed I Do” (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) 2:40
  3. “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) 3:20
  4. “Them There Eyes” (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) 5:04
  5. Dream a Little Dream of Me” (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt) 4:04
  6. “Tea for Two” (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) 3:10
  7. “Satin Doll” (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) 3:13
  8. “I'm Beginning to See the Light” (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) 3:57
  9. “Shiny Stockings” (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) 3:30
  10. “My Last Affair” (Haven Johnson) 3:11
  11. Ain't Misbehavin'” (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) 3:06
  12. “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) 3:00
  13. “My Last Affair” 3:26
  14. “My Last Affair” 3:39
  15. “Robbins Nest” (Breakdown) (Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Sir Charles Thompson) 1:22
  16. “Robbins Nest” 3:40
  17. “Robbins Nest” 3:09
  18. “Robbins Nest” 2:55
Tracks 13-18 are studio outtakes, not included with the 1963 release.

Personnel

Recorded July 16,17, 1963, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:

 


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