Tremendous. ...I'm going to follow your lead and listen to that right now.
On the way into work:
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve, 1960)
Fischer's arrangements of Ellington's music are very un-Ellingtonian -- very dense, very buttoned-down. So I found myself having to think of this music as something different -- something "not-Ellington" -- to not get hung up on it. When I did, I started to enjoy the music more.
Dizzy, of course, sounds great throughout.