Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
The Songbook series' crowning achievement — Fitzgerald's five-disc Gershwin survey with Nelson Riddle's arrangements is the most comprehensive and perfect marriage of jazz voice and orchestral sophistication.
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The crowning achievement of the Songbook series — a monumental five-disc survey of the Gershwin catalog with Nelson Riddle's lush arrangements, widely considered the finest vocal jazz recording ever made.
Career Phase
The definitive American popular music recordings — Fitzgerald's crystalline voice and impeccable phrasing elevated the Great American Songbook into a permanent canon, while her duets with Louis Armstrong captured the warmth and joy at jazz's emotional core.
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A second layer for farther resonances: connections that may not sound closest at first, but still point somewhere useful.