Hear Ledisi sing Honeysuckle Rose from the upcoming Ella 100: Live at the Apollo

It's a late-April release for Ella 100: Live at the Apollo! (Concord Jazz) featuring a host of top singers all celebrating Ella Fitzgerald and recorded at the Apollo in Harlem in 2016. Patti Austin, David Alan Grier, Andra Day, Ledisi, Lizz Wright, …

Published: 16 Mar 2020. Updated: 4 years.

It's a late-April release for Ella 100: Live at the Apollo! (Concord Jazz) featuring a host of top singers all celebrating Ella Fitzgerald and recorded at the Apollo in Harlem in 2016.

Patti Austin, David Alan Grier, Andra Day, Ledisi, Lizz Wright, Cassandra Wilson, Monica Mancini, Afro Blue and the Count Basie Orchestra & strings are among the stellar line-up on the album.

It was at the Apollo in 1934 that Ella's version of Hoagy Carmichael’s 'Judy' made such an impact and when the greatest voice in jazz, as she would be universally known, first introduced herself to win amateur night.

The recording includes a vintage radio recording of the historic 1934 night. Seventeen-year-old singer Ayo (Ayodele Owolabi) sings 'Judy' while Patti Austin covers “A Tisket, A Tasket” and 'When I Get Low, I Get High' and top Broadway singer Grier sings “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me.”,

Also on the record Lizz Wright sings 'The Nearness of You,' Cassandra Wilson 'Cry Me a River' and Ledisi interprets in hugely swinging fashion Fats Waller-Andy Razaf classic 'Honeysuckle Rose.'

The album also includes Ella herself singing the magnificent Bob Merrill-Jule Styne song, 'People.'

Full track list:

1

Vintage 1934 “Apollo Amateur Night” Radio Broadcast / “Judy”

David Alan Grier & Ayo

2

Ella 100 Co-Host David Alan Grier Opening

David Alan Grier

3

A Tisket-A Tasket

Patti Austin & The Count Basie Orchestra

4

When I Get Low I Get High

Patti Austin & The Count Basie Orchestra

5

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Andra Day & The Count Basie Orchestra (CD version only)

6

Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me

David Alan Grier & The Count Basie Orchestra

7

Love You Madly

Lizz Wright & The Ella 100 All-Star Quartet

8

The Nearness Of You

Lizz Wright & The Ella 100 All-Star Quartet

9

Oh, Lady Be Good

Ayo & Afro Blue

10

How High The Moon

Patti Austin, Afro Blue & The Count Basie Orchestra

11

Back To The Apollo! (Apple)

The Count Basie Orchestra

12

I Loves You, Porgy / There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York

Patti Austin, David Alan Grier & The Count Basie Orchestra

13

Cry Me A River

Cassandra Wilson & The Count Basie Orchestra

14

Honeysuckle Rose

Ledisi & The Count Basie Orchestra

15

Once in A While

Monica Mancini & Brian Nova

16

You’ll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini) / Paganini Bows Reprise

Patti Austin, David Alan Grier & The Count Basie Orchestra

17

People

Ella Fitzgerald

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Track of the day: 'Erzeben Strasse'

Right up our strasse which is not as rude as it sounds. From Quintet East out on vinyl next month on the Finnish We Jazz label. Bassist Antti Lötjönen makes his label debut along with his Bullhorn bandmate Verneri Pohjola on trumpet reversing the …

Published: 15 Mar 2020. Updated: 4 years.

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Right up our strasse which is not as rude as it sounds. From Quintet East out on vinyl next month on the Finnish We Jazz label. Bassist Antti Lötjönen makes his label debut along with his Bullhorn bandmate Verneri Pohjola on trumpet reversing the roles of leader and sideman, Mikko Innanen and Jussi Kannasteon are on saxophone and Joonas Riippa plays the drums. The absorbing 'Erzeben Strasse' is a Lötjönen composition and has a progressive, swinging life force to it. Yes it is streets ahead of a good deal of tracks that belong in the same bracket because of the intuitive sense of togetherness all the bandmates display and the way the tune actually tells a story whose plot is a moveable feast in the ear of the beholder.