Throughout a career spanning over five decades, American jazz/blues singer Ernestine Anderson (with more than 30 albums to her credit) turns back the clock on this remarkable release, recorded shortly before her 80th birthday. Backed by a quartet of outstanding musicians (tenor sax, piano, double bass, drums) Ms Anderson – who is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday – puts her own stamp on a bunch of evergreens, such as This Can’t Be Love, Skylark, Day By Day, For All We Know, Make Someone Happy, Candy and Leon Russell’s A Song For You. A class act.
Planet/MGM
Billy Pinnell
