Whisper Not (Ella Fitzgerald album)

For the Keith Jarrett album, see Whisper Not (Keith Jarrett album).
Whisper Not
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald
Released1966
RecordedJuly 20, 1966
StudioUnited Western (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length46:48
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
The Stockholm Concert, 1966
(1984) 		Whisper Not
(1966) 		Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
(1967)
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[1]

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".

  1. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.