Ella Mai – Ella Mai (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:28 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 10 Summers – Interscope PS
It’s always tricky when an emerging artist drops a full-length album after a big hit single. After the platinum-selling success of “Boo’d Up,” expectations are sky-high and the pressure is on to populate the project with various iterations of the crowd-pleasing track. After a slew of EPs and singles, UK-born singer and songwriter Ella Mai knows her musical mode — a mashup of R&B sounds from over the decades, with a modern mindset.
Her self-titled debut delivers vibes along the lines of “Boo’d Up,” which is all folks are really looking for at this point. She definitely knows her audience: tracks like “Sauce,” “Emotion” and “Cheap Shot” offer up perspectives of love, fidelity and relationships in a dangerous time. “Everything” brings out John Legend for a peculiar but serviceable duet, while “Gut Feeling” has H.E.R blessing the proceedings with two like-minded musicians delivering pretty much what you’d expect after these two share a studio.
This is all to say that there’s isn’t much not to like with Ella Mai. Nothing groundbreaking, but a good modern soul album that draws on specific touchpoints — late ’90 to early ’00s R&B filtered by way of trap-minded beats — curated to today’s audience. (10 Summers / Universal)
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Ella Mae Morse – Sensational! (1985/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:52 minutes | 356 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) was an American singer of popular music whose 1940s and 1950s recordings mixing jazz, blues, and country styles influenced the development of rock and roll. Her 1942 recording of “Cow-Cow Boogie” with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra gave Capitol Records its first gold record. In 1943, her single “Get On Board, Little Chillun”, also with Slack, charted in what would soon become the R&B charts, making her one of the first white singers to do so. Morse stopped recording in 1957 but continued to perform and tour into the 1990s. In 1960 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…
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Ella Mae Morse – Ella Mae Morse! (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:56 minutes | 418 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) was an American singer of popular music whose 1940s and 1950s recordings mixing jazz, blues, and country styles influenced the development of rock and roll. Her 1942 recording of “Cow-Cow Boogie” with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra gave Capitol Records its first gold record. In 1943, her single “Get On Board, Little Chillun”, also with Slack, charted in what would soon become the R&B charts, making her one of the first white singers to do so. Morse stopped recording in 1957 but continued to perform and tour into the 1990s. In 1960 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Ella Mae Morse – Barrelhouse, Boogie And The Blues (1997/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:41 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Ella Mae Morse’s entire output over her fifteen year tenure with Capitol Records (1942-1957), a label she helped put on the map, is here, including the hits mentioned above and dozens of others, including over twenty songs never before released, all beautifully, digitally re-mastered from the original masters.
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Ella Henderson – Glorious (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 12:53 minutes | 147 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records UK
Having returned last month with her first solo material in four years, multi-platinum-selling, BRIT Award nominee Ella Henderson has unveiled her ‘Glorious’ EP, the first collection of songs since her UK Number 1 debut album ‘Chapter One’ in 2014.
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Ella Henderson – Chapter One (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:10 minutes | 743 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Syco Music
2014 debut album from the British vocalist, best known for finishing sixth place on the ninth series of the X Factor, despite being the favorite to win. Includes production from Ryan Tedder, TMS, Steve Mac, Jamie Scott and others. This Deluxe edition includes five bonus tracks.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book (1964/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Recorded in 1964, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book was recorded at Radio Recorders Studio 10-H in Los Angeles, California with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra. The album was the only songbook collection Ella recorded that concentrates on the work of a lyricist instead of a composer. Riddle created wonderfully lush arrangements, and the album was Ella’s fifth and final collaboration with the conductor and arranger during her years on the Verve label.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (1963/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve
For the seventh album in her celebrated Song Book series, Ella Fitzgerald tackled classic melodies written for Broadway and Hollywood by Jerome Kern, the grandfather of the modern musical comedy, with backing by the orchestra of Nelson Riddle, the dean of Hollywood pop-jazz arrangers. The album was recorded on January 5-7, 1963 at Radio Recorders Studio 10H in Los Angeles and features some of the best studio musicians of the time, including Don Fagerquist (trumpet), Plas Johnson (tenor saxophone), and Wilbur Schwartz (clarinet). For lovers of good songs and good singing, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a triple treat.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book (1958/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:31:07 minutes | 3,83 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve
Released in 1958, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook features arrangements by Paul Weston. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for ALbum of the Year at the inaugural Grammy Awards. Fitzgerald won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook Vol.1 (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:33 minutes | 2,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Long considered a jewel in Verve Records’ very impressive crown, Fitzgerald’s songbook collections of various composers–a series that was started by the success of this set–are all wonderful, but her natural wit and intelligence was at its most perfect with Cole Porter’s erudite, urbane songs. While not as scat-oriented as her small group outings, these Porter sets offer her most realized pop performances. Also, the gold remastering does a fine job of bringing out the nuances in the arrangements, making this a treasure for the serious collector and the casual listener alike. A true American music gem.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:41 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Considered one of Ella’s greatest recordings, she’s backed on this 1960 release by pianist Paul Smith. Let No Man Write My Epitaph was a 1960 Hollywood movie featuring Fitzgerald. The album hits at a depth of emotional understanding that critics often complained was missing in Ella’s reading of jazz lyrics, and once again establishes her as one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Porgy And Bess (1956/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:12 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third and final of the pair’s albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Orchestral arrangements are by Russell Garcia, who had previously arranged the 1956 jazz vocal recording The Complete Porgy and Bess.
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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis (1957/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:12 minutes | 960 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Ella and Louis is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, this was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957’s Ella and Louis Again and 1959’s Porgy and Bess.
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Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday – Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1958/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:27 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Verve Music Group
A live album from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, this album combines individual performances recorded at separate shows two days apart from two of the most popular female singers of the era. Billie Holiday is backed by Mal Waldron on piano, Joe Benjamin on double bass and drummer Jo Jones; Ella Fitzgerald’s band includes Don Abney on piano, Wendell Marshall on double bass and Jones again on drums.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis Again (1957/2003/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:26 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve
Stylistically, singer Fitzgerald and trumpeter/singer Armstrong had very different histories; he started out in Dixieland before branching out into classic jazz and swing, whereas Fitzgerald started out as a swing-oriented big-band vocalist before becoming an expert bebopper. But the two of them have no problem finding common ground on Ella and Louis Again, which is primarily a collection of vocal duets (with the backing of a solid rhythm section led by pianist Oscar Peterson). One could nit-pick about the fact that Satchmo doesn’t take more trumpet solos, but the artists have such a strong rapport as vocalists that the trumpet shortage is only a minor point.
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