April in Paris (song) perfect, show me why it isn't." Freddy Martin and Henry King had the earliest hits of this song, at the very end of 1933. It has been performed by many artists, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Sinatra, Mary Kaye Trio, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Joni James, Blossom Dearie, Doris Day, Alex Chilton, Wynton Marsalis, Andy Williams, Amanda Thorpe, Michel Legrand, and Dawn Upshaw. Basie's 1955 recording is the most famous, and that particular performance was
Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra side" of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris". Later in 1977, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was re-released on vinyl by Deutsche Grammophon, on their Polydor Records label, backed by "Street Music: A Blues Concerto". In 2002, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was released on CD, combined with "Street Music" and "An American in Paris". On Classical Music Sentinel in 2011, Jean-Yves Duperron wrote, "This great collaborative recording from the 1970s deserves the term of Definitive Recording simply for being what it is. A very successful coming together of different genres of music that