228 episodes
Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella Geoffrey Mark
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Celebrate the music of The First Lady of Song along with Emmy winner, Grammy nominee and acclaimed Ella Fitzgerald biographer Geoffrey Mark. Each episode of Geoffrey Mark Plays Ella focuses on a particular theme or aspect of Ella's seven-decade recording legacy, along with behind the scenes details, incisive commentary, showbiz anecdotes, and more.
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The Best of Ella at Montreux
This week: Geoff plays selections from Ella's performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland over a ten-year period, circa 1969-1979. Tracks include Give Me The Simple Life, Satin Doll, Some Other Spring, That Old Black Magic, Let's Do It, I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, Honeysuckle Rose, Day By Day, A Place For Lovers, Make Me Rainbows, Too Close For Comfort, Flying Home. This edition of GPE was produced by Ed Robertson
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The Best of Ella at Montreux: Part 2
This week: Geoff plays selections from Ella's performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland over a ten-year period, circa 1969-1979. Tracks include Give Me The Simple Life, Satin Doll, Some Other Spring, That Old Black Magic, Let's Do It, I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, Honeysuckle Rose, Day By Day, A Place For Lovers, Make Me Rainbows, Too Close For Comfort, Flying Home. This edition of GPE was produced by Ed Robertson
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The Best of Ella at Montreux: Part 3
This week: Geoff plays selections from Ella's performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland over a ten-year period, circa 1969-1979. Tracks include Give Me The Simple Life, Satin Doll, Some Other Spring, That Old Black Magic, Let's Do It, I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, Honeysuckle Rose, Day By Day, A Place For Lovers, Make Me Rainbows, Too Close For Comfort, Flying Home. This edition of GPE was produced by Ed Robertson
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The Best of Ella at Montreux: Part 4
This week: Geoff plays selections from Ella's performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland over a ten-year period, circa 1969-1979. Tracks include Give Me The Simple Life, Satin Doll, Some Other Spring, That Old Black Magic, Let's Do It, I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, Honeysuckle Rose, Day By Day, A Place For Lovers, Make Me Rainbows, Too Close For Comfort, Flying Home. This edition of GPE was produced by Ed Robertson
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Ella in Japan: 1953
Highlights from the concert that Ella gave in Tokyo, Japan in 1953. Though her manager at the time, Norman Granz, had arranged to have the performance recorded, none of these tracks you'll hear this week were available to the public until they were released on CD, many years later, as Ella in Japan: 1953. Tracks include On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Body And Soul, Why Don't You Do Right, Oh, Lady Be Good, I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good, How High The Moon, My Funny Valentine, Smooth Sailin', The Man That Got Away, Frim Fram Sauce. GPE is produced by Ed Robertson
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Ella in Japan: 1953, Part 2
Highlights from the concert that Ella gave in Tokyo, Japan in 1953. Though her manager at the time, Norman Granz, had arranged to have the performance recorded, none of these tracks you'll hear this week were available to the public until they were released on CD, many years later, as Ella in Japan: 1953. Tracks include On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Body And Soul, Why Don't You Do Right, Oh, Lady Be Good, I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good, How High The Moon, My Funny Valentine, Smooth Sailin', The Man That Got Away, Frim Fram Sauce. GPE is produced by Ed Robertson
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