From his debut with the orchestra of Chick Webb in 1936 to the first albums dedicated to the great composers of popular American (the famous' Song Books'). The freshness of its charming 19 years to maturity stunning emotion and accuracy of tone. Without forgetting the sparkling scats bebop with the big band of Dizzy Gillespie and some beautiful duets: tender with Louis Armstrong, complicit with Louis Jordan, brilliant with Joe Williams. An anthology of three CD foreword by Claude Carriere, 68 titles selected and annotated by Marc Thomas, a study by Philippe Baudoin on musical quotations dotting the work of the singer in a booklet of 96 color pages illustrated: rare photographs, partitions, pouches, label ... Criticism of 'Retrospective 1936-1956' After paying

tribute to Louis Armstrong, the luxurious collection that compiles Saga formed a prolific artistic couple with trumpeter and thus offered the glorious moments of jazz: Ella Fitzgerald. The opportunity is found to travel throughout the career of the diva in this "best of" picked taste. A bouquet and advised flamboyant three compilations have twenty good years of the singer before his collaboration (no less successful) with the producer Norman Granz. The first (1936-1946) suggests the emergence of the singer with the orchestras to wish swinging to Benny Goodman and Chick Webb, or the time it was in full competition with the other diva of the time, Billie Holiday . And if you have always praised the tone of upsetting Billie impossible to remain indifferent to the plasticity of Ella's voice can make all the colors, the warmest in the most languorous without ever losing the swing, this irrational sense of rhythm, this little nothing that makes all major. On the first disc, means the vote itself and the growing success: Ella with the orchestra of a particular musician, Ella goes on and his orchestra. It also discovered sweets such as "Mama Come Home 'where, escorted by a vocal group of the most beautiful effect, Ella ventured for the first time in what will be his trademark, the scat. The result is better known: Ella Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Buddy Rich or pages and indelible historical commentary written by the ear and advised Marc Thomas, singer, saxophonist and scatteur who had written the notes of Billie Holiday in box the same series. The icing on the gift to testify under trees Dad Christmas book delivers splendid and rare photos and a text by Philippe Baudoin exciting about the art of the quote from Ella. A delight. Related : Ella Fitzgerald  Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald  Check website for Ella...