Ella and Louis

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Ella and Louis
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong

Publication
(s)

1956

Label (s) verve

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

11

running time

54:06

occupation

production

Norman Granz

Studio (s)

Capitol Tower, Hollywood

chronology
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
(1956) 		Ella and Louis Ella and Louis Again
(1957)

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 founded the Verve label primarily to record Ella Fitzgerald, selected eleven ballads for Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong , the most popular duo partners in jazz singing in the 1950s . These were partly harmoniously complex like Can't We Be Friends , Moonlight in Vermont or April in Paris , but they were mostly played slowly or at a moderate pace.

The recordings show how perfectly Armstrong and Fitzgerald harmonized as a duet. Armstrong began playing his trumpet cautiously and muffled. The album has been called a touchstone and template for jazz vocal duets.

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

reception

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

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

The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

Track list

Ella Fitzgerald, November 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Louis Armstrong, 1953
  1. Can't We Be Friends? (Paul James, Kay Swift ) - 3:45
  2. Isn't This a Lovely Day? ( Irving Berlin ) - 6:14
  3. Moonlight in Vermont (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf ) - 3:40
  4. They Can't Take That Away from Me ( George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 4:36
  5. Under a Blanket of Blue ( Jerry Livingston , Al J. Neiburg , Marty Symes) - 4:16
  6. Tenderly ( Walter Gross , Jack Lawrence) - 5:05
  7. A Foggy Day (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 4:31
  8. Stars Fell on Alabama ( Mitchell Parish , Frank Perkins ) - 3:32
  9. Cheek to Cheek ( Berlin ) - 5:52
  10. The Nearness of You ( Hoagy Carmichael , Ned Washington ) - 5:40
  11. April in Paris ( Vernon Duke , Yip Harburg ) - 6:33

literature

  • Jack Maher: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis (Verve). In: Jazz Today. 1/5 (Dec 1956), pp. 34, 36.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David A. Jasen, Gene Jones: Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-415-93641-1 .
  2. ↑ Grammy Hall of Fame Inducts 26 New Titles Jazz recordings include titles from Miles, Coltrane, Louis & Ella (2015) in ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JazzTimes @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jazztimes.com

Web links

Commons : Louis Armstrong  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Commons : Ella Fitzgerald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files