Nice Work If You Can Get It

Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 1983 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist André Previn, and the double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. This was Fitzgerald's only album recorded with Previn, and represented her first album of single composer material since her 1981 album Ella Abraça Jobim. Nice Work If You Can Get It was the last in a long line of collborations that Fitzgerald made with predominantly jazz piano accompaniment. Her earlier albums in a similar vein were Ella Sings Gershwin (1950), Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" (1960), and Ella and Oscar (1975). For these albums she was accompianied by the pianists Ellis Larkins, Paul Smith, and Oscar Peterson respectively. This...