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Ernestine Anderson – A Song for You

June 26, 2009

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

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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

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