Cat No FSRCD482

This is US singer Ernestine Anderson’s landmark debut recording - and made her an ‘overnight sensation’. It was recorded in Sundsvall, Stockholm, in1956 - with a band including Cecil Payne (bars), Duke Jordan (p), John Simmons (b), Benny Bailey (tp); & Art Taylor (d)

Plus the Harry Arnold Orchestra with star Swedish jazz names like : Rolf Ericsson (tp), Arne Domnerus (cl, as); Rolf Blomquist (ts); Lennart Jansson (cl, bars); Ake Persson (tb), etc. and a 9-piece string section.

Although Ernestine Anderson had toured with moderate success in the bands of Russell Jacquet, Johnny Otis, and Lionel Hampton, and had been heard very briefly on a Gigi Gryce LP, she was more or less an unknown in the States until, in the spring of 1956, the Swedish trumpeter Rolf Ericson asked her to join a combo he was taking over to tour Scandinavia.