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<i>The Best Is Yet to Come</i> (Ella Fitzgerald album)

The Best Is Yet to Come (Ella Fitzgerald album)

1982 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald

The Best Is Yet to Come is a 1982 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.[1]

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The last of Fitzgerald's six collaborations with Riddle, their work together on the Verve label more than fifteen years earlier is considered some of Fitzgerald's finest, both musically and critically.

Fitzgerald's performance on the album won her the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, one of three Grammys she won for her work with Riddle.

Reception

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In his biography of Riddle, September In the Rain, Peter J. Levinson wrote that the album "...simply wasn't the best. In fact it was a near disaster. The raggedy tone of Ella's voice couldn't be disguised".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 4:03
  2. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 4:42
  3. "(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson) – 3:48
  4. "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:27
  5. "Any Old Time" (Artie Shaw) – 4:19
  6. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:58
  7. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:24
  8. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 5:19
  9. "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Parish) – 4:04
  10. "Somewhere in the Night" (Milton Raskin, Billy May) – 3:07

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    The Best Is Yet to Come at AllMusic
  2. [2]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 493. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. [3]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 77. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. [4]
    Peter J. Levinson (1 January 2005). September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle. Taylor Trade Publications. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-58979-163-3.
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