The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald

"My goal was to make the quintessential Jane Monheit album. I wanted to bring to the forefront all of the things she loves that people might be sleeping on. I was clear that I didn’t want this to be a repertory thing where we played the standards as done 60 years ago. Times have changed. Like it or not, romance doesn’t look the same as it did then, and what was sexy music in 1938 isn’t so sexy anymore. " ~Nicholas Payton, Producer / Arranger (excerpt from the Liner Notes of Jane Monheit Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald