There has probably been no singer who has interpreted jazz standards with more authority, grace, and skill than Ella Fitzgerald. During her years on the Verve label she recorded albums dedicated to the songs of Georg and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Irving Berlin – most of them accompanied by an orchestra, though her first album of Gershwin material was a simple voice-and-piano affair. Any one of these would make an ideal introduction to the work of America’s greatest jazz singer, but the Berlin volume offers a particularly lovely mix of romantic, whimsical, and charming material, from the sweetly heartbroken “You’re Laughing at Me” to the rollicking “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”