WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years--the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on--its hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record companys archives.
Yet Verve has just released Twelve Nights in Hollywood, a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and 62--and none of it has ever been released until now.
These arent bootlegs; the CDs were mastered from the original tapes, which were produced by Norman Granz, Verves founder and Fitzgeralds longtime manager.
Yet Verve has just released Twelve Nights in Hollywood, a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and 62--and none of it has ever been released until now.
These arent bootlegs; the CDs were mastered from the original tapes, which were produced by Norman Granz, Verves founder and Fitzgeralds longtime manager.
