Featuring Ella Fitzgerald

by Chick Webb

Overview

This hard-to-find Lp is not really worth the search. The Chick Webb Orchestra is heard in broadcasts from 1937 and 1939 (the dates and personnel listing are inexcusably not given) and there is less than 27 minutes of music; little all that significant occurs. Ella Fitzgerald takes four vocals and the versions of "That's A Plenty" and "One O'Clock Jump" have their exciting moments but overall this is just a routine (and poorly annotated) set. The Mills Brothers (who are not billed at all) are featured on "Swing Mr. Charlie." The music deserves to be reissued (along with some other sessions) in a more coherent fashion. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	05/30/2012
Label:	Smithsonian Records
UPC:	0093070281820
Rank:	116109

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chick Webb   Primary Artist,Drums
Ella Fitzgerald   Primary Artist
Charles Linton   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Charles Tobias   Composer
Charles Newman   Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
Marion Sunshine   Composer
Sam Coslow   Composer
Saul Chaplin   Composer
Sue Werner   Composer
Al Sherman   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Trummy Young   Composer
Will J. Harris   Composer
Stanley Adams   Composer
Wilbur Sweatman   Composer
Kay Werner   Composer
Murray Mencher   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
Morris White   Composer
Oliver Young   Composer
Charles Linton   Performer
Ella Fitzgerald   Composer,Performer
Edgar Sampson   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Oscar Levant   Composer
James P. Johnson   Composer
Larry Clinton   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Chick Webb   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Van Alexander   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Sy Oliver   Composer
Nat Gardner   Composer