A Classy Pair

Infobox Album | Name = A Classy Pair
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald


Released = 1979
Recorded = February 15, 1979
Genre = Jazz
Length = 39:11
Label = Pablo Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpdyyl78xp9b link] | Last album = "Digital III at Montreux"
(1979)
This album = "A Classy Pair"
(1979)
Next album = "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 "Ella and Basie!" (1963), 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.

Track listing

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

Personnel

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

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* John Clayton - Double Bass
* Ray Brown - Double Bass
* Freddie Green - Guitar
* Butch Miles - drums

* The Count Basie Orchestra
* Ray Brown - Trumpet
* Paul Cohen
* Sonny Cohn
* Pete Minger
* Nolan Andrew Smith
* Bill Hughes - Trombone
* Mel Wanzo
* Dennis Wilson
* Mitchell Wood
* Michael Booty Wood
* Bobby Plater - Alto Saxophone
* Danny Turner
* Eric Dixon - Tenor Saxophone
* Kenny Hing
* Charlie Fowlkes - Baritone Saxophone
* Count Basie - Piano

* Benny Carter - Arranger, Conductor

Credits

*Produced by Norman Granz
*Mastered by Eric Miller & Greg Fulginiti