Ella Fitzgerald - Invite You To Listen And Relax

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1955
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:09
Size: 82,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:08) 1. I Wished On The Moon
(2:43) 2. Baby
(3:00) 3. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
(3:13) 4. A Man Wrote A Song
(2:49) 5. Who's Afraid (Not I, Not I, Not I)
(2:27) 6. Happy Talk
(3:05) 7. Black Coffee
(3:05) 8. Lover's Gold
(2:55) 9. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
(3:01) 10. Dream A Little Longer
(2:40) 11. I Need
(3:00) 12. Foolish Tears

Responding to the demand for mood music albums in 1958, Decca put together an LP of ballads and things that Ella Fitzgerald recorded in tandem with Decca's all-purpose music director Gordon Jenkins when he was riding high in the early '50s. Fitzgerald could invoke a few jazz inflections here and there, particularly on a bluesy rendition of "Black Coffee," but she is asked mostly to play the role of a white-bread pop crooner. All of Jenkins' harmonic, big-band, orchestral and choral trademarks are in full play here, evoking the cozy ambience of postwar suburbia as completely as anyone did in those days. As a period piece, it is very enlightening, but Fitzgerald's best Decca work lay elsewhere. ~Richard S. Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/miss-ella-fitzgerald-and-mr-gordon-jenkins-invite-you-to-listen-and-relax-mw0000871003

Invite You To Listen And Relax

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