Sarah Vaughan & Billy Ekstine – The Irving Berlin Songbook (1957)

01) Alexander's Ragtime Band
02) Isn't This A Lovely Day
03) I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
04) All Of My Life
05) Cheek To Cheek
06) You're Just In Love
07) Remember
08) Always
09) Easter Parade
10) The Girl That I Marry
11) Now It Can be Told

Sarah Vaughan 	- Vocals
Billy Eckstine - Vocals
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Hal Mooney - Arranger, Conductor
Orchestra

Sarah Vaughan's heavenly vocalizing and Billy Eckstine's velvety deep tone proved an ideal match during the late '40s and throughout the '50s. This 1957 Irving Berlin collection qualifies as the high point of that collaboration. Sometimes surpassing their splendid solo sides, Vaughan and Eckstine obviously revel in each other's company here, seamlessly blending their voices on most every track. Draped in Hal Mooney's fine and unobtrusive charts, the singers particularly shine on such well-tread Berlin fare as "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Cheek to Cheek"; there are equally splendid readings of the rarely covered "Easter Parade" and "Now It Can Be Told" as well. A highlight from the land of vintage vocal jazz. ---Stephen Cook

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