Ella Fitzgerald - Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax (2021) [Hi-Res]

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.

Tracklist:
1 01. Ella Fitzgerald - I Wished On The Moon (Remastered) (03:08)
1 02. Ella Fitzgerald - Baby (Remastered) (02:43)
1 03. Ella Fitzgerald - I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Remastered) (03:00)
1 04. Ella Fitzgerald - A Man Wrote A Song (Remastered) (03:12)
1 05. Ella Fitzgerald - Who's Afraid (Not I, Not I, Not I) (Remastered) (02:49)
1 06. Ella Fitzgerald - Happy Talk (Remastered) (02:26)
1 07. Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee (Remastered) (03:05)
1 08. Ella Fitzgerald - Lover's Gold (Remastered) (03:05)
1 09. Ella Fitzgerald - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair (Remastered) (02:54)
1 10. Ella Fitzgerald - Dream A Little Longer (Remastered) (03:01)
1 11. Ella Fitzgerald - I Need (Remastered) (02:40)
1 12. Ella Fitzgerald - Foolish Tears (Remastered) (03:00)