Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald Vocal
Perhaps no Ella Fitzgerald Decca LP fully captured her astonishing emotional and technical range as the beautifully paced SWEET AND HOT, drawn from sessions recorded between 1952 and 1955. The "sweet" songs, which comprised Side A of the original LP (tracks 1-6), are nuanced interpretations of classic ballads and torch songs. The "hot" ones (Side B, tracks 7-11) find Fitzgerald cutting loose in her inimitable manner. She improvises with elegance on all 11 performances, each one definitive, |
