Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color is a 1956
album of short
tone poems by eight notable mid-20th century
Hollywood composers.
The album was conducted by Sinatra and marked the first musical collaboration between Sinatra and
Gordon Jenkins. Each composition was inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel.
A chapter discussing the album, "The Colors of
Ava: Tone Poems of Color and the Painful Measure of Sinatra's Passions," appears in A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood Press, 2002) by Gilbert L. Gigliotti.