The Wonderlust Journal » classics http://thewonderlustjournal.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Listening To >> Summertime http://thewonderlustjournal.com/listening-to-classics-summertime/ http://thewonderlustjournal.com/listening-to-classics-summertime/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:01:00 +0000 Eliza Coleman http://thewonderlustjournal.com/?p=1282 Late-summer heat has this song playing on repeat in my head.  Here, the classic jazz standard by George Gershwin performed by a few of the greats.  Amazing to hear how each of them interprets it, no?
A very spare, introspective version from Ella Fitzgerald.

Possibly on the other end of the spectrum from the one above by Ella, Big Mama Thornton, who I l-o-v-e, brings something totally different to this classic… Though not the classic arrangement, this might be my favorite.

A very lush recording from Ella with Louis Armstrong, and maybe the version that comes to mind when you think of this song.
The original recording by Billie Holliday.
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