Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (LP)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (LP) Previously Unreleased 1958 Hollywood Bowl Performance Discovered in the Private Collection of Norman Granz; Mixed from the Original ¼" Tapes by Grammy Award-Winning Producer/Musician Gregg Field The previously-unreleased Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook is drawn from the beloved jazz vocal stylist's performance at the famous venue on August 16, 1958. This came just a few months after she recorded the classic Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook LP. At the Hollywood Bowl concert, Ella performed selections from that album to a sellout crowd, with an orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, in their only live work together. Weston had also arranged and conducted the studio sessions. The event was also the only time that Fitzgerald performed these arrangements live with a full orchestra. The Irving Berlin Songbook LP went on to bring Ella her first Grammy, at the inaugural award