We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
# We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song

We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song is a 2007 tribute album to Ella Fitzgerald produced by Phil Ramone for Verve Records, released to mark the 90th anniversary of her birth. The "all-star" list of featured vocalists is backed for most part by an orchestra led by Rob Mounsey. The album contains the first release of a duet of Ella Fitzgerald and Stevie Wonder, who joined her on stage with her small band at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1977.

## Track listing

* "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald)
* "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss)
* "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
* "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt)
* "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow)
* "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
* "Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin)
* "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
* "Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter)
* "Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
* "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)
* "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis)
* "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, Larry Holofcener)
* "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (recorded live in New Orleans, 1977) (Stevie Wonder)
* "Airmail Special" (Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy)

## Personnel

### Featured vocalists and instrumentalists

* Natalie Cole with Terry Trotter, piano
* Chaka Khan with Tony Kadleck, trumpet
* Queen Latifah
* Diana Krall with Hank Jones, both on piano
* Natalie Cole and Chaka Khan
* Dianne Reeves
* Lizz Wright with Regina Carter, violin, and Russell Malone, guitar
* Ledisi
* Linda Ronstadt
* Gladys Knight
* Etta James
* k.d. lang with Tom Scott, tenor saxophone
* Michael Bublé
* Ella Fitzgerald joined by Stevie Wonder on vocal and piano
* Nikki Yanofsky
* Orchestra on tracks # 1–8, 11 and 12 was arranged and conducted by Rob Mounsey;
* "Someone to Watch over Me" (# 10) was arranged and conducted by Billy Childs;
* "Too Close for Comfort" (# 13) arranged by Billy Childs and conducted by Rob Mounsey;
* "Miss Otis Regrets" (# 9) sung by Linda Ronstadt with string trio and piano arranged by pianist Alan Broadbent, and produced, recorded and mixed by George Massenburg and co-produced by John Boylan.
* The bonus track "Airmail Special" (# 15) was arranged for a jazz quintet and conducted by double bassist John Clayton and produced by Tommy LiPuma.
* On tracks # 5, 6, 12 and 13 a string section is added to the big band.
* The Australian edition of the album added another bonus track, an interpretation of "Cotton Tail" sung by Dee Dee Bridgewater taken from her own tribute album Dear Ella (Verve, 1997).
