1001 Albums Summary

Ella Fitzgerald’s voice is incredible, warm, precise and full of joy as usual. I listened to this start to finish while going about my morning and it was very pleasant background music, but got pretty dull after a while. This is a lot of jazz standards for the average listener to sit through in one go. Also, listen on shuffle so you don’t end up with a whole disk of instrumentals at the end.

A lot of this is just a little too discordant for my taste, but it’s a fun listen. “Where is my mind?” is a classic and the album never stops being interesting. “Gigantic” might be a new favorite. You can really hear the Nirvana/Hole roots in this album. I only knew “Cactus” from the Bowie cover, so that was cool to find.