Ella Fitzgerald

Love For Sale

This Buddy Bregman arrangement, written for the 1956 album 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook,' provides an interesting contrast to several of the other well-known covers of this long-standing jazz standard. The arrangement begins with the song's fairly unknown verse, taken mostly rubato until the main melody comes in at measure 25. The backgrounds behind the vocalist are fairly simplistic, and there are multiple written solo alto sax interjections throughout. Most of these figures should be fairly subdued, the exceptions being the alto sax solo breaks and the line in the strings at measures 11 and 12. The saxophones set up the tempo for the melody beginning at measure 23 with a simple background riff that comes up several more times over the course of the arrangement. While other notable recordings of this song tend to range in the medium-fast to fast range, this arrangement opts for a fairly moderate pace. Most of the rest of the arrangement is made up of simple but effective background riffs that don't really exceed a medium-soft volume level until measure 105. The volume level begins to taper back down when the brass switch to cup mutes at measure 121. A brief vocal solo break in measures 125 and 126 set up an appropriately sinister sounding ending featuring another written alto saxophone solo and some rhythmically clever trumpet and saxophone figures. This arrangement is for jazz studio orchestra featuring vocal soloist. This is not a transcription - it has been prepared from Bregman's original score and the set of parts used during the recording session.