So for jazz newcomers unfamiliar with the Songbook, here's an introduction to the work of composer-lyricist Cole Porter. This classic 2-disc set is an aural encyclopedia of Porter's songs, beautifully ...

(For more on the Great American Songbook, see the article Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook in this "Getting Into Jazz" series.) Like the Porter album, which was recorded in the same year ...

The three sets of liner notes for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, a 32-track double album, similarly ...

Speaking of indispensable collections, Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbooks should probably ... for Sale" at a fairly breezy clip; as she sings, it's great fun to listen for those little ...

Fitzgerald reinvented her career by recording Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, thus starting a series of Songbook albums that featured her interpretations of the works of great ...

The title of “Becoming Ella Fitzgerald ... Even when Fitzgerald reached new creative and commercial heights with the “Cole Porter Songbook” album in 1956, some critics questioned whether ...

This was true from the first album in this series, 1956’s Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, which entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In Ella’s hands, and with charts by ...

Granz’s vision was for Ella to celebrate the Great American Songbook and she did in a series of eight recordings in eight years. Starting with “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook” in 1956, ...

Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, etc., you’re queueing up Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook from 1964. “People did not take these songs seriously before ...