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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

Ella Fitzgerald (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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This early '60s studio session captures Ella Fitzgerald moving toward the smaller, more pointedly jazz-inflected ensembles that would shape her career in her final decades. After the lush orchestrations of her classic series of composer songbooks, which found her collaborating with the best arrangers, the intimate scale and easy interplay of a crack band provide a wonderful platform for the spirited performances here. That Ella herself savored the opportunity is reflected in a program that includes Thelonious Monk's "After Midnight" and a breezy, potent ride through the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie anthem, "Night In Tunisia." With a mix of bona fide standards and revived swing classics, this is a rediscovered gem, cause enough to clap hands. --Sam Sutherland

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Ella Fitzgerald's superb 1962 album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie features fourteen tracks that mix bona fide standards with classics from the heyday of swing in completely original and personal arrangements. Following on her series of lushly arranged "composer songbook" recordings, this album marks a move toward the smaller jazz ensemble recordings that Fitzgerald favored in her final decades. Featuring a rock solid quartet led by pianist Lou Levy and featuring Herb Ellis on guitar, the album's intimate scale allows Fitzgerald's voice to shine as never before. Key tracks include Thelonious Monk's "After Midnight" and a colorful rendition of the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie anthem, "Night In Tunisia." Analogue Productions's remastering for hybrid SACD reveals the album's top flight production in all its glory.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 50,000 stars Sep 7 2003
By "garfieldguy"
Format:Audio CD
This is one of Ella's very best (if no THE best) albums. Heck, it's one of the best vocal jazz albums *period.* It's just Ella and a small group, but it will blow you away. I recommend it to everyone, and it makes a great first choice for those just now looking into the First Lady of Song. Every track is choice, but "Night In Tunisa," "'Round Midnight," "Jersey Bounce," and "Music Goes Round and Around" stand out. The best song is "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." It's the best rendition of that song by anyone anywhere. :-D
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Magic Jun 2 2003
By "amateurviolinist"
Format:Audio CD
This is probably my favorite Ella CD. Recorded in her prime--the early 1960s--it eschews the overlush arrangements and unembellished singing of her "Songbook" period and returns to her swing roots. This time she chooses a small combo of top-notch musicians and takes an attitude that's at once more intense and more playful than before, steering a course between the score-bound style of the mid-50s and the showy scat singing that made her famous in the 40s. Here the singing is very tender and contains the most tasteful, imaginative, and beautiful ornaments & phrasings I've ever heard in jazz singing--listen, for example, to the haunting last bars of "Round Midnight" and see if the hairs of your arms don't rise. What's even more notable is the large number of bop standards and slow ballads on this album. It's all wonderful, but I would name "Night in Tunisia," "Round Midnight," "Cry Me A River," "Good Morning, Heartache," and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" as my favorite tracks.

Also highly recommended are "Ella in Berlin" and "Ella in Rome," both recorded during the same period (late 1950s, early 1960s) with small combos.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive versions Jan 27 2003
By Tracy A. Gittins
Format:Audio CD
I had jazz professors at the University of Utah that steered me toward Ella's music. They said that in order to understand jazz with all of its improvisation, one should listen to how the tune "goes" first. Especially in the Songbook albums, Ella sings them with little improv or embellishment, but reads the ink pretty straight. Several of the composers featured stated that they didn't know how good their songs were until they heard Ella sing them.
Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie is backed by jazz trio/quartet, a departure from the more string-backed songbooks. Ella is a little more playful here.

If you have all of her Songbook series, and you're looking to expand your Ella collection, I'd recommend starting here.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My first jazz album
I bought this on vinyl in 1968 and always loved it, but it went missing and I had forgotten even the name of the album, but then a little before the Internet came along I called... Read more
Published on Dec 17 2002 by Jonathan M. Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ella!!
This is the only Ella cd I own. I bought it on a whim. Most of her compilation cd's have all of her up tempo pop songs which I don't like. Read more
Published on Jun 26 2001 by "musicgrl"
5.0 out of 5 stars Ella at her best
I've been listening to Ella for a few years and this is my current favorite. The voice is beautiful and the singing is subtle and creative.
Published on Mar 14 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Clap Hands, Here Comes Ella
This cd is worth it alone for "I Got a Guy." She takes a potentially sappy song and makes it tender, pure, honest, and oh-so beautiful. Read more
Published on July 18 2000 by Stony
5.0 out of 5 stars Boy, can Ella swing or what!
This is most definitely a real classy album from the first lady of song. Ella is found here at what I think was her most instinctive and exciting setting; a small jazz Combo... Read more
Published on Jan 8 2000 by "aje"
5.0 out of 5 stars Classy and Intimate
This is a terrific album that features Ella in a studio with the combo backing that was her usual live setting at the time (early 60s). Read more
Published on July 10 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars This is Ella at her best
One of the few albums from her Verve years to feature Ella with a jazz trio instead of a studio band, this 1961 treasure has always ranked at the top in my listing of the best... Read more
Published on Jun 14 1999 by "mtaylor830"
5.0 out of 5 stars So Sophisticated
This album stands by itself in the massive Ella Fitzgerald collection. The choice of songs, and of course her interpretation, put this one in a different category. Read more
Published on Sep 5 1998 by Adam A. Fine
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