Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook (Expanded Edition) (2018)

Jazz is often an art of collaboration, and Ella Fitzgerald's Harold Arlen Song Book ranks as one of the great three-way meetings in the history of the music. There's the amazing Ella herself, at the peak of her powers, vocally and dramatically. There's Billy May, a brilliant jazz orchestrator who had an unerring knack for coming up with the ideal settings for the great singers, in his only meeting with Fitzgerald. And spread out before them is the songbook of Harold Arlen, whose bluesy melodies provided a bridge between the twin territories of jazz and Broadway. Ella had created yet another definitive edition of the best work of another of America's most gifted composers.