Louis Armstrong's influence as the greatest innovator in jazz in evident on this rich 1957 recording featuring the arrangements and orchestral direction of Rusell Gracia. As Tony Bennett remarked in 1964, "Most people don't realize that Louis Armstrong taught practically every pop singer of the day how to phrase correctly. Without his basic phrasing one cannot be a good pop singer." Singing instrumentalists Jack Teagarden and Chet Baker, phrasing geniuses Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday, and the finest of scat singers, Ella Fitzgerald, are all deeply indebted to Armstrong.