Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook
Verve, 1959
Clocking in a 3 hours and 15 minutes, Ella Fitzgerald's exhaustive take on the Gershwin Songbook is intense. It took me a week to work through, and when you're dealing with the First Lady of Song, it's not like you can just breeze through it. This is just luscious. Just pure romance. Burning through all these great ladies of jazz, it's like what do you even do with that? How do you even objectively tackle folks who are unimpeachable? I could listen to them sing all day long, and in the case of this one, I pretty much have!
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