Rhythm Is My Business

Rhythm Is My Business
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald
Released1962
RecordedJanuary 30–31, 1962
GenreJazz
Length42:25
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Twelve Nights in Hollywood
(2009) 		Rhythm Is My Business
(1962) 		Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
New Record Mirror[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. The album was recorded with a big band and arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett.

DownBeat magazine gave this album 3½ stars, commenting that the emphasis here was on "swinging".

Billboard reviewed the album in September 1962 and said that it "rates a lot of play".[5]

  1. ^ "Rhythm Is My Business". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Watson, Jimmy (23 March 1963). "Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm Is My Business" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 106. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ "Reviews of New Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1 September 1962. p. 35. ISSN 0006-2510.