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Summer Songbook Series

From Inside Out, 12:48 pm today
A black-and-white photo of Ella Fitzgerald singing passionately on stage into a vintage microphone, wearing a dark dress and gesturing toward the audience. In Vienna, Austria 23 April 1959.

Photo: VOTAVA/IMAGNO/APA-PictureDesk via AFP

 

Keep your summer jazzy with Inside Out and Nick Tipping's Summer Songbook Series, which recreates Ella Fitzgerald's iconic Songbook albums with tracks by a variety of artists.

Recorded between 1956 and 1964 for Verve, Ella Fitzgerald’s Songbooks survey the core composers of American popular song. Together they present definitive interpretations of the songs of Gershwin, Porter, Ellington, Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Arlen, Kern, and Jobim, one composer per album.

 

These shows were originally broadcast in 2018. Listen to them all here!

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