LoginElla Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book
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Recorded in 1960 and '61, this is one of the last and very best of Fitzgerald's songbooks spotlighting individual composers. Arlen's lyrical songs, filled with bluesy touches and abstractions from the blues form, are perfect jazz fodder (he wrote for Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, circa 1930), and beautiful tunes in their own right. Fitzgerald is in peak voice; she's attentive to the nuances of soulful lyrics (Ira Gershwin's "The Man That Got Away"), and lightly teases some witty ones (like Johnny Mercer's "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive"). Billy May's big-band arrangements are models of self-effaci
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Manufacturer: Verve Records
Release date: 9 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731458910824 UPC: 731458910824
Release date: 9 October 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731458910824 UPC: 731458910824
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