Rhythm Is My Business
1962 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Rhythm Is My Business | ||||
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Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald | ||||
Released | 1962 | |||
Recorded | January 30–31, 1962 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:25 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
Ella Fitzgerald chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
New Record Mirror | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. The album was recorded with a big band and arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett.
DownBeat magazine gave this album 3½ stars, commenting that the emphasis here was on "swinging".
Billboard reviewed the album in September 1962 and said that it "rates a lot of play".[5]
Track listing
For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4056
- Side one
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Rough Ridin'" | Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, William Tennyson | 2:51 |
2. | "Broadway" | Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode | 2:43 |
3. | "You Can Depend on Me" | Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines | 3:32 |
4. | "Runnin' Wild" | Arthur Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood | 2:40 |
5. | "Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World 'Cause That's Where Everything Is" | Les Clark, Matt Dennis | 2:42 |
6. | "I'll Always Be in Love with You" | Bud Green, Herman Ruby, Sam H. Stept | 2:50 |
- Side two
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "Hallelujah, I Love Him So" | Ray Charles | 2:34 |
8. | "I Can't Face the Music" | Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler | 5:00 |
9. | "No Moon at All" | Redd Evans, Dave Mann | 2:36 |
10. | "Laughin' on the Outside" | Ben Raleigh, Bernie Wayne | 4:53 |
11. | "After You've Gone" | Henry Creamer, Turner Layton | 4:08 |
- 1999 CD reissue bonus tracks
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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12. | "Taking a Chance on Love" | Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche | 2:35 |
13. | "If I Could Be with You" | Creamer, James P. Johnson | 2:39 |
Note: Track 7 has only been re-issued on CD in mono, due to the loss of the stereo master tape.[6]
Personnel
- Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
- Taft Jordan – trumpet
- Ernie Royal – trumpet
- Joe Wilder – trumpet
- Melba Liston – trombone
- Kai Winding – trombone
- Britt Woodman – trombone
- Carl Davis – reeds
- Jerry Dodgion – reeds
- William Shakesnider – reeds
- Les Taylor – reeds
- Phil Woods – reeds
- Hank Jones – piano
- Mundell Lowe – guitar
- Lucille Dixon – double bass
- George Duvivier – double bass
- Gus Johnson – drums
References
- ^ "Rhythm Is My Business". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (23 March 1963). "Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm Is My Business" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 106. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Reviews of New Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1 September 1962. p. 35. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Sleeve notes; CD re-issue Rhythm Is My Business" in 1999 on Verve 559 513-2. (Research; Ben Young)
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albums
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- Songs in a Mellow Mood
- Lullabies of Birdland
- For Sentimental Reasons
- Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax
- Sweet and Hot
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
- Ella and Louis
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
- Ella and Louis Again
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
- Like Someone in Love
- Ella Swings Lightly
- Porgy and Bess
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
- Get Happy!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
- Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
- Hello, Love
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
- Rhythm Is My Business
- Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
- Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
- Ella Sings Broadway
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book
- Ella and Basie!
- These Are the Blues
- Hello, Dolly!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book
- Ella at Duke's Place
- Whisper Not
- Brighten the Corner
- Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
- 30 by Ella
- Misty Blue
- Ella
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)
- Ella Loves Cole
- Take Love Easy
- Fine and Mellow
- Ella and Oscar
- Fitzgerald and Pass... Again
- Lady Time
- Dream Dancing
- A Classy Pair
- Ella Abraça Jobim
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Speak Love
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Easy Living
- All That Jazz
albums
- At the Opera House
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
- Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert
- Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's
- Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
- Ella in Hollywood
- Ella Returns to Berlin
- Twelve Nights in Hollywood
- Ella at Juan-Les-Pins
- Ella in Hamburg
- Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall
- The Stockholm Concert, 1966
- Ella in Budapest
- Ella à Nice
- Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72
- Ella in London
- Montreux '75
- Montreux '77
- Digital III at Montreux
- A Perfect Match
- Sophisticated Lady
albums
- Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- Back on the Block
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
- Pure Ella
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
- Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1
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- Ride 'Em Cowboy
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Ray Brown (second husband)
- Ray Brown Jr. (son)
- Louis Armstrong collaborations
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
- Marilyn and Ella (2008 play)
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