Verve Records · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Ella Fitzgerald At The Opera House
| Recorded | Sep 29 & Oct 9, 1957 |
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| Label | Verve Records |
| Released | 1957 |
| Personnel | 14 credited players |
| Discogs | master 310634 |
The record
Live document from Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic package, catching Fitzgerald amid a murderer's row of tenor giants -- Hawkins, Young, Getz, Jacquet, Phillips -- with the Oscar Peterson trio driving the swing underneath.
Session personnel
- Sonny Stitt — alto saxophone
- Ray Brown — bass
- Connie Kay — drums
- Jo Jones — drums
- Herb Ellis — guitar
- Oscar Peterson — piano
- Coleman Hawkins — tenor saxophone
- Flip Phillips — tenor saxophone
- Illinois Jacquet — tenor saxophone
- Lester Young — tenor saxophone
- Stan Getz — tenor saxophone
- J.J. Johnson — trombone
- Roy Eldridge — trumpet
- Ella Fitzgerald — vocals
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 56 pressings on file.
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Pressing earliest on file · deep groove |
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| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, Publisher Credits, Long Playing Microgroove · deep groove |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Mono, Trumpeter, Long Play High Fidelity Text, No Pressing ID |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Mono |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG VS-6026 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Mono |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG VS-6026 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Trumpeter, No Long Play/High Fidelity Text, No Pressing ID |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Mono |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG V-8264 — Vinyl, LP, Mono, Hollywood (Columbia) Pressing, Trumpeter |
| 1958 | Verve Records · MG VS-68264 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1959 | Columbia · 33CX 10126 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
Follow the players
Sonny Stitt also plays on
Ray Brown also plays on
Connie Kay also plays on