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A Perfect Match
Live album by
Released1979
RecordedJuly 12, 1979
Genre Jazz
Length41:09
Label Pablo Today
Producer Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
A Classy Pair
(1979)
A Perfect Match
(1979)
Ella Abraça Jobim
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]

A Perfect Match is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, and featuring Count Basie himself on the last track.

It is the last of four albums Fitzgerald recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival to be released.

Ella's performance on the album won her the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.

Two further tracks from this concert, " I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" and "Flying Home" appeared on the 1979 album Digital III at Montreux.

Track listing

  1. " Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" ( Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept) – 2:02
  2. " Sweet Georgia Brown" ( Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:07
  3. "Some Other Spring" ( Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 4:22
  4. " Make Me Rainbows" ( Alan Bergman, John Williams) – 3:24
  5. " After You've Gone" ( Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 3:45
  6. " 'Round Midnight" ( Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 4:43
  7. " Fine and Mellow" ( Billie Holiday) – 2:42
  8. " You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) – 3:15
  9. " Honeysuckle Rose" ( Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:23
  10. " St. Louis Blues" ( W. C. Handy) – 5:18
  11. "Basella" ( Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald) – 10:21

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

Credits

References

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott. A Perfect Match at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 492. ISBN  978-0-141-03401-0.