Linda Ronstadt

Say what you will about Linda Ronstadt, you have to admire her pluck. Whether singing
Elvis Costello or Rodgers and Hart or La Bohème or The Pirates of Penzance or the role of
Ginger in Carla Bley's late-Sixties jazz opera Escalator over the Hill, she has always
displayed a willingness to gamble. But on Lush Life, her second album of vintage standards
with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra, the payoffs are pretty slim. In many ways, ... More >