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Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

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had achieved much by the time she signed to the newly created

Verve Records in 1956, but it was the genius of Norman Granz,

her personal manager and Verve founder, in suggesting she

tackle the material of great contemporary composers in themed

albums that sent her career into orbit. As the New York Times

wrote on her passing in 1996, "These albums were among the

first pop records to devote such serious attention to individual

songwriters, and they were instrumental in establishing the pop

album as a vehicle for serious musical exploration." The song

selections ranged from standards to rarities, and the eight-title

series represented an attempt by Fitzgerald to cross over to a

non-jazz audience that may have been unaware of the talents

she first committed to vinyl in 1935.