Says the never beyond
Burd Ellen
Emneord
Anmeldelser (4)
JazzTimes
d. 25. nov. 2020
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Colin Fleming
d. 25. nov. 2020
"Were there a jazz rainbow-let's call it a swinging rainbow-that ended in a pot of musical gold sufficiently effulgent as to immediately merit the word "masterpiece," there's a good chance that pot contained this new Ella Fitzgerald discovery. Fitzgerald and Berlin ... go way back-to the eve of Valentine's Day 1960, when she cut a live album there that infused swing and the American songbook with scat stylings that were as bracing as Picasso's forays into synthetic cubism ... In her mid-forties, she's in the early portion of what will be an extended vocal prime. Tapes are made, tapes are then lost, and thanks to the swinging rainbow, they have found us again".
DownBeat
2021 January
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John McDonough
2021 January
"Berlin was Ella Fitzgerald's kind of town. One of her greatest successes was Ella In Berlin, issued in 1960. Decades later, tapes of a 1961 Berlin concert became Ella Returns To Berlin. And now, after another three decades, The Lost Berlin Tapes (...) is upon us, a hitherto undocumented encore from March 1962 ... The Lost Berlin Tapes is a genuine find, unlisted in any discography ... Is this the best of the Berlin concerts? No, just another one. But that's good enough".
Mojo
2021 January
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Geoff Brown (f. 1946)
2021 January
"Two years after a legendary concert, a return to Berlin produced more magic".
Record collector
511 (2020 November)
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Charles Waring
511 (2020 November)
"A fabulous snapshot of arguably jazz's greatest singer at the peak of her powers".