Verve期の大名盤=『Hello Love』が180g重量盤にて復刻。ベン・ウェブスターなど錚錚たる名手によるオーケストラとエラによる名演を誇る本作に、同セッションのアウトテイク2曲が追加収録、ジャケット写真も変更されることで新しい魅力が加わった。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2019/10/21）

A fine gem among the diamonds of Ella Fitzgerald's late-'50s period with Verve, Hello Love may not have approached the quality of her songbooks, but it did allow her to sing a few fine songs she'd missed the first time around. (And although none of the songbook giants are represented, the material is hardly second-rate.) Wrapped in the strings of Frank DeVol's orchestra, Fitzgerald is a bewitching presence singing these dreamy standards: "Tenderly," "You Go to My Head," "Willow Weep for Me," and "Stairway to the Stars." DeVol's charts are dynamic as well, allowing space for expressive players such as trumpeters Harry "Sweets" Edison and Pete Candoli or tenor Ben Webster. A few of the titles are solo versions of songs she had recently sung on her Louis Armstrong duets. ~ John Bush

Rovi