| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | January 5–7, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 43:00 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
| Record Mirror | [4] |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. The album focuses on the songs of the composer Jerome Kern.
This was the second of Fitzgerald's Song Book series to have been orchestrated by Riddle; their previous collaboration was her George and Ira Gershwin Song Book in 1959. Fitzgerald and Riddle also recorded two albums of standards, Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson and Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, in 1962.
This was the seventh and penultimate album in Fitzgerald's Song Book series of songs written by musical theater composers; it was preceded by 1961's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book and followed by Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book in 1964.
Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat magazine in 1963.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (February 27, 1965). "Ella Fitzgerald: Jerome Kern Songbook" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 207. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.