The Best Is Yet to Come (album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Best Is Yet to Come
Type = Album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald


Released = 1982
Recorded = February 4, 5 1982
Genre = Jazz
Length = 40:11
Label = Pablo Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic (2/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8kpsa9wgy23h link] | Last album = "Ella Abraça Jobim"
(1981)
This album = " The Best is Yet to Come "
(1982)
Next album = "Speak Love"
(1983) |

"The Best is Yet to Come" is a 1982 (see 1982 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

It is notable as the last of Ella's six studio collaborations with Riddle, their work together on the Verve label more than a decade earlier is considered some of Ella's finest, both musically and critically.

Ella's performance on this album won her the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, one of three Grammys she won for her work with Nelson Riddle.

Track listing

# "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 4:03
# "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) – 4:42
# "(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson) – 3:48
# "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:27
# "Any Old Time" (Artie Shaw) – 4:19
# "Good-Bye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:58
# "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:24
# "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 5:19
# "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) – 4:04
# "Somewhere in the Night" (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 3:07

Personnel

Recorded February 4, 5, 1982, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

* Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
* Christine Ermacoff - Cello
* Barbara Hunter
* Dennis Karmazyn
* Jerome Kessler
* Robert L. Martin
* Judith Perett
* Frederick Seykora
* Nancy Stein
* Bill Green - Flute
* Ronnie Lang
* Ronald Langinger
* Hubert Laws
* Wilbur Schwartz
* David Duke - French horn
* Joe Meyer
* Gale Robinson
* Marshall Royal - Alto Saxophone
* Al Aarons - Trumpet
* Bob Cooper - Tenor Saxophone
* Bill Watrous - Trombone
* Tommy Tedesco - Guitar
* Joe Pass
* Richard Klein - Guitar, French horn
* Art Hillery - Organ
* Jim Hughart - Double Bass
* Shelly Manne - drums
* Jimmy Rowles - Piano
* Nelson Riddle - Arranger, Conductor