Nice Work If You Can Get It (album)
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| Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald | ||
| Released | 1983 | |
| Recorded | May 23, 1983 | |
| Genre | Jazz | |
| Length | 35:44 | |
| Label | Pablo | |
| Producer(s) | Norman Granz | |
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| Ella Fitzgerald chronology | ||
| Speak Love (1983) |
Nice Work If You Can Get It (1983) |
Easy Living (1986) |
Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 1983 (see 1983 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist Andre Previn, and the double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.
This was Fitzgerald's only album recorded with Previn, and represented her first album of single composer material since her 1981 album Ella Abraça Jobim. The album was the last in a long line of collborations that Fitzgerald made with predominantly jazz piano accompaniment. Her earlier albums in a similar vein were Pure Ella (1950), Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), and Ella and Oscar (1975). For these albums she was accompianied by the pianists Ellis Larkins, Paul Smith, and Oscar Peterson respectively. This album was also Fitzgerald's first all Gershwin album since 1959's epic Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.
The album cover is a caricature of Fitzgerald, Previn, and the Gershwin brothers by the American cartoonist Al Hirschfield.
[edit] Track listing
- “A Foggy Day” – 6:10
- “Nice Work If You Can Get It” – 5:14
- “But Not for Me” – 3:54
- “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off” – 2:46
- “How Long Has This Been Going On?” – 5:01
- “Who Cares?” – 4:30
- Medley: “I've Got a Crush on You”, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, “Embraceable You” – 4:56
- “They Can't Take That Away from Me” – 3:27
All songs composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin.
[edit] Personnel
Recorded May 23, 1983, Hollywood, Los Angeles:
