Christina Pazzanese felt the album was "hit-and-miss" in her review for
The Boston Globe. Pazzanese described
Natalie Cole as the best at capturing Fitzgerald's "sunny buoyancy" and praises
k.d. lang's "smokey lusciousness" on "
Angel Eyes". She was particularly critical of Gladys Knight, Dianne Reeves and Diana Krall, describing them as "a major letdown", "tepid, overly polite" and "plodding" respectively. The album received a 4 star review in
The Evening Standard, which wrote that the album was "remarkably all-star" and it was a "jazz fact that you have to expire if you want to be marketed properly". Rashod Ollison in
The Baltimore Sun and Jeff Simon In
The Buffalo News both highlighted
Ledisi's "
Blues in the Night" and
Nikki Yanofsky's scat singing on "Airmail Special". Simon praised Yanofsky's "phenomenal channelling" of Fitzgerald and Ollison felt her performance was "mouth-dropping". Simon also wrote the album had "some surprises, even shocks". ==Track listing==