The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.153 - Ivie Anderson [1932-1942] [2005]

01.It Don’t Mean A Thing
02.I’ve Got The World On A String
03.My Old Flame
04.Troubled Waters
05.Let’s Have A Jubilee
06.Cotton
07.Truckin’
08.Isn’t Love The Strangest Thing
09.Oh Babe! Maybe Someday
10.Shoe Shine Boy
11.It Was A Sad Night In Harlem
12.I’ve Got To Be A Rug Cutter
13.There’s A Lull In My Life
14.All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm
15.Alabamy Home
16.I’m Checkin’ Out, Goo’m Bye
17.Killin’ Myself
18.Me And You
19.Chocolate Shake
20.I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good
21.Jump For Joy
22.Rocks In My Bed
23.Hayfoot, Strawfoot

Considered one of the finest singers of the golden age of jazz, Ivie Anderson was a fluent vocalist who impressed many with her blues and scat phrasings. Most impressed was Duke Ellington, who kept her on as vocalist for eleven years and is thought to be the best singer he ever had.

Born in Gilroy California, Anderson had already enjoyed some time in the spotlight when Duke Ellington hired her in 1931. Having proven her audience appeal as a Cotton Club chorus girl Anderson had spent a year with Earl Hines and His Orchestra in Chicago before catching Ellington’s ear and eye.

“The Voice of Ellington,” the beautiful and stylish Anderson, was with the bandleader for eleven years, a term longer than any other of his vocalists. With a relaxed style, light tone and superb diction she would competently perform blues, ballads, and novelty songs with both enthusiasm and ease. “It Don’t Mean a Thing” was the first of her many recording hits with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra which include: “I’m Satisfied” (1933), “Cotton” (1935), “Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing?” (1936), “Love Is Like a Cigarette” (1936), “There’s a Lull in My Life” (1937), “All God’s Children Got Rhythm” (1937), “If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)” (1938), “At a Dixie Road Diner” (1940), and “I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” (1941).

In 1942, she left the band to open her own Chicken Shack restaurant in Los Angeles. Her retirement from the music business was, at least in part, due to chronic asthma, a condition that brought about her early death.-- Jeremy Wilson, naxos.com

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