A Perfect Match

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A Perfect Match
A Perfect Match cover
Live album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1979
Recorded July 12, 1979
Genre Jazz
Length 41:09
Label Pablo Records
Producer(s) Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
A Classy Pair
(1979)
A Perfect Match
(1979)
Ella Abraça Jobim
(1981)


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.

This is one of four albums that Ella recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, being Ella's fourth and final Montreux appearance to be released on record.

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

Two further tracks from this concert appeared on the 1979 album Digital III at Montreux.

[edit] 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 Jnr, Irene Kitchings) – 4:22
  4. “Make Me Rainbows” (Alan Bergman, Johnny 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

[edit] Personnel

Recorded July 12, 1979, in Montreux, Switzerland:

[edit] Credits