Ella, 12 Nights in Hollywood

Verve just released a box set of Ella Fitzgerald live in a small club in Hollywood at the peak of her career. In the NYTimes review the producer, Richard Seidel, had this to say about the project:

“I was feeling kind of down that day,” he recalled, “and the more I listened, I could not help but start to smile. I’ve worked on dozens of Ella projects over the years, but there was something different about this one — the sheer rhythmic joy she projects, the endlessly inventive improvising.”

There are a couple of sample tracks at the link too. This sounds like a great set of recordings....