The Best Is Yet to Come (album)

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The Best Is Yet to Come
The Best Is Yet to Come cover
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1982
Recorded February 4, 5 1982
Genre Jazz
Length 40:11
Label Pablo Records
Producer Norman Granz
Professional reviews
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella Abraça Jobim
(1981)		 The Best is Yet to Come
(1982)		 Speak Love
(1983)

The Best is Yet to Come is a 1982 (see 1982 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

It is notable as the last of Ella's six studio collaborations with Riddle, their work together on the Verve label more than a decade earlier is considered some of Ella's finest, both musically and critically.

Ella's performance on this album won her the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, one of three Grammys she won for her work with Nelson Riddle.

[edit] Track listing

  1. “Don't Be That Way” (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 4:03
  2. “God Bless the Child” (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 4:42
  3. “(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone” (Buddy Johnson) – 3:48
  4. “You're Driving Me Crazy” (Walter Donaldson) – 3:27
  5. “Any Old Time” (Artie Shaw) – 4:19
  6. “Goodbye” – 3:58
  7. “Autumn in New York” (Vernon Duke) – 3:24
  8. “The Best Is Yet to Come” (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 5:19
  9. “Deep Purple” (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) – 4:04
  10. “Somewhere in the Night” (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 3:07

[edit] Personnel

Recorded February 4, 5, 1982, Hollywood, Los Angeles: