Anderson,Ivie Ivie Anderson Collection 1932-46 CD

Ivie Anderson was a jazz singer who was so versatile and highly regarded that she was the longest-serving female vocalist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, occupying that exacting role from 1932 through to 1942, a vital and exciting formative era for Ellington's music. Born in 1905, she began performing in her native Los Angeles in 1921, and by 1925 was singing at New York's famous Cotton Club and toured with stage musicals, before joining Earl Hines in 1930. She was soon hired by the Duke, and enjoyed a lengthy stay with him, as he made the most of her fine jazz feel, and her ability to work across a range of styles and material, from highly original renditions of up-tempo material like her much-lauded recording of "It Don't Mean A Thing" to sensitive treatments of ballads like "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" which place her alongside the likes of much better known peers as Billie Holiday. This great value 50-track 2-CD set primarily comprises recordings with the Ellington orchestra for the Brunswick, Columbia, RCA-Victor, Variety & Master labels across the era, including the 1942 pop and R&B hits "I Got It Bad" and "Hayfoot, Strawfoot", plus later solo recordings for the Excello and Black & White labels, including her 1944 hit "Mexico Joe". It also includes a version with Duke of "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" which she performed in the 1942 Marx Brothers movie "A Day At The Races". It's a thoroughly enjoyable and, we hope, nicely representative overview of the most important period of her career and a fine showcase for a distinctive performer who has not received the recognition her talent merits.

1. It Don't Mean A Thing 2. Delta Bound 3. Happy As The Day Is Long 4. Get Yourself A New Broom 5. I'm Satisfied 6. Ebony Rhapsody 7. Troubled Waters 8. Cotton 9. Truckin' 10. Isn't Love The Strangest Thing 11. Kissin' My Baby Goodnight 12. Oh, Babe ! Maybe Someday 13. Shoe Shine Boy 14. I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter 15. My Honey's Lovin' Arms 16. Did Anyone Ever Tell You' 17. There's A Lull In My Life 18. The Old Plantation 19. Alabamy Home 20. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm 21. If You Were In My Place 22. Carnival In Caroline 23. Swingtime In Honolulu 24. You Gave Me The Gate 25. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street 26. Watermelon Man 27. La De Doody Do 28. In A Mizz 29. I'm Checkin' Out, Goom Bye 30. A Loney Co-Ed 31. You Can Count On Me 32. Killin' Myself 33. Solitude 34. Stormy Weather 35. Mood Indigo 36. So Far, So Good 37. Me And You 38. At A Dixie Roadside Diner 39. Five O'clock Whistle 40. I Got It Bad 41. Rocks In My Bed 42. I Don't Mind 43. Hayfoot, Strawfoot 44. Mexico Joe 45. Play Me The Blues 46. On The Sunny Side Of The Street 47. You Ought To Know 48. He's Tall, Dark And Handsome 49. Empty Bed Blues 50. Big Butter And Egg Man