Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from the Soundtrack of "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist Paul Smith. Let No Man Write My Epitaph was a 1960 Hollywood crime drama film featuring Fitzgerald. Until 2014 this album was only available on CD as The Intimate Ella, and is considered one of Ella's greatest recordings. Ella's 1950 Decca album Ella Sings Gershwin, is in a similar vein, with Ella accompanied by the pianist Ellis Larkins. The album hints at a depth of emotional understanding that critics often complained was missing in Ella's reading of jazz lyrics, and once again establishes her as one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Scott Yanow's review of the album declared, "Listeners who [think] Ella Fitzgerald... had trouble giving the proper emotional intensity to lyrics will be surprised by this sensitive and often haunting set". In 2020, the album was rereleased as part of the Verve compilation The Complete Piano Duets. DownBeat reviewer Barbara Gardner gave the album 3 stars, calling it a "terribly flat drab collection of torch tunes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fi..."Let_No_Man_Write_My_Epitaph") under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)