Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson [Import]

Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson [Import]

ASIN: B000056EV9

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Two CD Compilation (Covering the 30's and Early 40's) featuring One of the Most Famous Vocalists Duke Ellington Ever Had Fronting his Band. Soloists Featured Are: Johnny Hodges (Alto Saxophone), Rex Stewart (Trumpet), Barney Bigard (Clarinet), Cootie Williams (Trumpet), Harry Carney (Baritone Saxophone) and Ben Webster (Tenor Saxophone). Includes Such Classic Ellington Standards As: 'it Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got that Swing), 'all God's Chillun Got Rhythm', 'solitude' and 'mood Indigo'.

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Sweet Ivie Anderson: The Voice Which Graced The Duke.

If I could give this review 20 stars, I would...

Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson
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Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056EV9
Release Date: 2001-03-02

Album Details

Two CD Compilation (Covering the 30's and Early 40's) featuring One of the Most Famous Vocalists Duke Ellington Ever Had Fronting his Band. Soloists Featured Are: Johnny Hodges (Alto Saxophone), Rex Stewart (Trumpet), Barney Bigard (Clarinet), Cootie Williams (Trumpet), Harry Carney (Baritone Saxophone) and Ben Webster (Tenor Saxophone). Includes Such Classic Ellington Standards As: 'it Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got that Swing), 'all God's Chillun Got Rhythm', 'solitude' and 'mood Indigo'.

Customer Reviews:

Sweet Ivie Anderson: The Voice Which Graced The Duke. .......2005-06-23

Whether your love is for older forms of Jazz, honky tonk
show tunes, or just a rollicking good time with the baddest
Big Band around, featuring some of the sweetest, gutsiest
singing you'll ever hear, DUKE ELLINGTON PRESENTS IVIE
ANDERSON is one wonderful must-have! This 2-disc set is
a deluxe travelogue of the Ellington orchestra focusing
upon dynamic cover performances and key formative work
for Columbia from 1932 to 1940.
With bands whose basswork runs from the stomping slap
of Wellman Braud to the consummate breakthrough dance
of Jimmy Blanton, you are witness -front and center-
to the science and sorcery which changed the listening
of the world, forever. A special treat is how many
showtunes by the likes of Harold Arlen (Anderson's
show-stopping rendition of "Stormy Weather", for
instance!) find their way alongside forgotten
chestnuts ("All God's Chillun Got Rhythm",
"Shoeshine Boy", "Rose Of The Rio Grande",
"In A Mizz") and Ellington originals, known
and unknown.

Make no mistake, though, on who is the focus of this
collection. Frequently dismissed or taken for granted
by more recent Jazz critics as being way too plain,
the point missed is that her plain-spoken stylistic
is at the heart of why Anderson is so unique. Those
disappointed that Anderson wasn't Ella Fitzgerald or
Sarah Vaughan show their own lack of perspective,
forgetting that singers like Anderson set the stage
(Along with Mr. Armstrong, of course!) for the
astounding scatologists and sweet bird-callers
to come.
Further, it was the pioneering of singers such as
Ivie Anderson who broke rank with the overblowing
theatrics of Rudy Vallee, and the campy mammyface
of Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, to hit with a
subtler brand of genuine down-home song.

Anderson's approach was to sear with a sharp delivery
borne of Blues belters. This she finely attuned with
clearest enunication, crisp tonality, and dynamic
warmth which brought anything she sang straight on
home -uptown and downtown- to all who hears!
Far from stolid, her lively, pugnaciously eloquent
style is engaging and inviting, and was clearly the
precedent for generations of staright-shooters and
subtle note-benders from Billie Holiday to Lena Horne,
and on.

Listen to the debut recording of the anthem "It Don't
Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", Anderson
riding the rat-a-tat romp of Ellington pomp with her
own shout and shimmy to seperate the gals from the
girls, and the women even finer! Check out her saucy
street step on "Killing Myself", featuring some hip
ad-lib from maestro Billy Strayhorn! Encounter her
aching balladry in an epic rendition of "Solitutde",
and the curvaceous sensuality she brings to "Mood
Indigo", and you will come to know the surging power
and rarified grace that this woman brought to the
master stage of Ellington performance.

No singer ever graced it finer.

If I could give this review 20 stars, I would..........2002-03-10

...because this is some of the best swing music ever recorded. Duke Ellington's greatest vocalist in the 1930s and early '40s, Anderson found her career cut short by chronic asthma. Fortunately she recorded all these incredible tunes first. Ivie blows all her competitors away... Trust me, this is a record to get with no questions asked.

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