Ella and Louis

Occupation

Ella and Louis is a jazz album from 1956 by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet.

The album

Norman Granz, who had founded the Verve label in particular to take Ella Fitzgerald, sought out eleven ballads for the most popular in the 1950s duo partner of jazz singing, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. These were partially harmonic complex as Can not We Be Friends, Moonlight in Vermont or April in Paris, but they were mostly played in slow or moderate pace.

On the recordings is to hear how perfectly Armstrong and Fitzgerald harmonized as a duet. Armstrong put his trumpet playing a restrained and subdued. The album was called a touchstone and template for jazz vocal duets.

The recipe for success of Ella and Louis was continued by Granz on Ella and Louis again and Porgy & Bess. The three albums were issued as a set Louis Armstrong as The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and on Verve, which additionally contained two pieces of a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Jasen and Jones identified the three albums as " top of the popular (jazz ) singing ".

Reception

The The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Cook / Morton called the album a major contribution to jazz singing and awarded four out of four stars.

Verve brought the album out as one of the first albums in the Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD ) format.

Album pieces

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