A Classy Pair

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A Classy Pair
A Classy Pair cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1979
Recorded February 15, 1979
Genre Jazz
Length 39:11
Label Pablo Records
Producer(s) Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Digital III at Montreux
(1979)		 A Classy Pair
(1979)		 A Perfect Match
(1979)


A Classy Pair is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, with arrangements by Benny Carter.

This was Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie's first studio recording since the epic 1963 album Ella and Basie!, and this album finds Ella's voice much changed, but still possessing hints of her former greatness. Ella and Basie worked together much more frequently during her Pablo years than they had during her years on the Verve label, and this album marked the end of a relationship that had been cemented in 1957, Ella Fitzgerald being the 'jazz singer's singer' and Count Basie fronting the ultimate Big Band.

[edit] Track listing

  1. “Honeysuckle Rose” (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 5:58
  2. “My Kind of Trouble Is You” (Benny Carter, Paul Vandervoort II) – 4:35
  3. “Teach Me Tonight” (Sammy Cahn, Gene DePaul) – 3:15
  4. “Organ Grinder's Swing” (Hudson, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 5:56
  5. “Don't Worry 'Bout Me” (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:30
  6. “I'm Getting Sentimental over You” (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 2:52
  7. “Ain't Misbehavin'” (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 4:00
  8. “Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'” (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:42
  9. “Sweet Lorraine” (Carter Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 4:23

[edit] Personnel

Recorded February 15, 1979, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:

[edit] Credits

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