Whisper Not (Ella Fitzgerald album) explained

Whisper Not
Type:Studio
Artist:Ella Fitzgerald
Cover:WhisperNot.jpg
Released:1966
Recorded:July 20, 1966
Studio:United Western (Hollywood)
Genre:Jazz
Length:46:48
Label:Verve
Producer:Norman Granz
Prev Title:The Stockholm Concert, 1966
Prev Year:1984
Next Title:Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
Next Year:1967

Whisper Not is a 1966 studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Marty Paich Orchestra. She had previously recorded with Marty Paich and his more familiar Dek-tette on the 1957 album Ella Swings Lightly.

Whisper Not is Ella's penultimate recording for the Verve label. Her 11 years on the Verve label had seen her make her most acclaimed recordings, critically and commercially. The jazz critic Will Friedwald described her pre-Verve work on Decca as "seeming a mere prelude", and her "post-Verve years as an afterthought".

Track listing

For the 1967 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4071; Re-issued in 2002 on CD, Verve 314 589 478-2

Personnel

Recorded July 20, 1966 at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Tracks 3–6

Tracks 1–2, 7–12