Ivie Anderson - Ivie Anderson Collection 1932-46Ivie Anderson was a jazz singer who was so versatile and highly regarded that she was the longest serving female vocalist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, occupying that exacting role from 1932 through to 1942, a vital and exciting formative era for Ellington's music. Born in 1905, she began performing in her native Los Angeles in 1921, and by 1925 was singing at New York's famous Cotton Club and toured with stage musicals, before joining Earl Hines

tenor Christoph Genz and alto Petra Noskaiová have limited responsibilities-a single aria and a single recitative apiece-all done in fine style

It's a hugely evocative musical snapshot of a remarkable era in popular music as it became a mass market phenomenon

the track selection of the original LPs compiling team has been retained

We Got Love

he developed a finger-style technique which set him apart from his peers and gave his music and recordings an increasingly distinctive flavour

Andy Secrest

the Gaechinger Cantorey chorus and orchestra under the musical direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann and together with an excellent ensemble of soloists performed both magnificent works together in concert - unfortunately in front of an empty hall but reaching their audience via livestream and recording it for this extraordinary release

he was to die a year after they were composed

When singers like Gentry

their career being cut short by Jack Anglin's death in an auto accident in 1963

Appealing to a classical music audience and fans of the film

dusty Delta day