Description
Ella Fitzgerald’s second entry in her landmark songbook series – devoted to the great early 20th Century dramatic composers Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart – arrived just three months after her Cole Porter instalment in 1953, meaning she’d already become a touchstone for vocal jazz. Made in the same Hollywood studio where Frank Sinatra finalised his mid-50s masterpieces, the sessions put Ella in an elite West Coast class: Maynard Ferguson, Milt Bernhart, Herb Geller, and more. Under Buddy Bregman’s direction, their crisp, spacious charts give Ella freedom, turning evergreens such as ‘There’s A Small Hotel’, ‘You Took Advantage Of Me’ and ‘My Funny Valentine’ into definitive readings. This Verve Acoustic Sounds edition draws directly from the first analogue tapes.
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