Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland is an Australian creative director, establishing design agency Studio Jack in 2008. He has also been involved in the entertainment industry as a producer, working on a variety of events and productions, from festivals to musical theatre productions and large scale concert events. Prior to 2008, Carland trained and worked in general management with Laura Green in New York on Broadway, working on the Broadway productions of "The Producers" and "Hairspray", culminating in working as assistant to Mel Brooks for the Broadway production and cast recording of "The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein", which opened
Ella Sings Broadway which by and large had been written before the outbreak of the Second World War, and which had been aped in its popularity with youth by Rock and Roll by the time of the Vietnam War. With many George and Ira Gershwin, Porter and Berlin standards having been written in the 1920s and 1930s, whilst Sinatra and Fitzgerald were growing up. On " Ella Sings Broadway ", Ella connects with the Broadway songs of the previous decade and a half, vastly different in musical terms to the Great American Songbook standards from 40 years previously. The twelve songs are from