Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald Vocal
Duke Ellington Piano
Oscar Peterson Piano
Barney Kessel Guitar
Buddy Bregman Conductor
Billy May Conductor
Paul Weston Conductor
"We never really rehearsed for these dates...We'd sit down and read through these [charts], and very rarely did we have to correct anything. Ella was flawless." Lou Levy, the pianist on many Ella Fitzgerald song book sessions, remembers them fondly in the liner note. And he muses on her reputation vis-a-vis the love song: "She out swings everybody, her intonation is as good if not better than everyone's...[but] she's always sounded like [a] little girl...maybe that's what worked against her..."
Well, this collection of love songs, featuring the work of Arlen, Berlin, Ellington, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rodgers - all at their most amorous - gives the First Lady of Song the perfect showcase to prove once and for all that she has no peer in singing about matters of the heart. This is a great collection for swingin', dancin', and romancin'. |
