Tom M:
"Ella Fitzgerald and certain sophisticated contributors to the Great American Songbook had always left me impressed but cold until I made a concerted effort to understand them and stumbled across this. It unl..."
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Tom M:
"Ella Fitzgerald and certain sophisticated contributors to the Great American Songbook had always left me impressed but cold until I made a concerted effort to understand them and stumbled across this. It unlocked everything else: the vulnerability and softness I'd never heard in Fitzgerald; the stylish contours of melody that I'd only heard in snatches from Gershwin; a lyrical and vocal aesthetic that couldn't count on loud guitars to drive home the point. I got it bad."
