ella and louis

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong made a perfect pair with the virtuoso performances on these classic romantic jazz collaborations.  'Ella and Louis' was was the brainstorm of producer Norman Granz and recorded with engineer Val Valentin at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.  The sessions featured Fitzgerald on vocals and Armstrong on vocals and trumpet, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet: Ray Brown on bass; Herb Ellis on guitar; Oscar Peterson on piano; and Buddy Rich on drums.   Armstrong and Fitzgerald reinterpret the selection of standards in their own inimitable style to create a new standard for excellence in duets.  





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'Ella and Louis' 
full album (plus):



Side one:
"Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:47
"Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:16
"Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:42
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:39
"Under a Blanket of Blue" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 4:18
"Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 5:10

Side two:
"A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:32
"Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 3:34
"Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 5:53
"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 5:42
"April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 6:33

'Ella and Louis Again' follows the same formula, producer and backing band with Louie Bellson replacing Buddy Rich on drums.  The sessions took place in the Los Angeles studio.  Satchmo only plays trumpet on six of the nineteen tracks and only twelve of the songs are duets.  



Side one:
"Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 5:01
"Makin' Whoopee" - Louis Armstrong solo vocal (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:59
"They All Laughed" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:50
"Comes Love" - Ella Fitzgerald solo vocal (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 2:28
"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 6:00

Side two:
"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" - Louis Armstrong solo vocal (Cole Porter) – 8:44
"Stompin' at the Savoy" (Goodman, Andy Razaf, Sampson, Chick Webb) – 5:16
"I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:47
"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Razaf, Don Redman) – 4:11

Side three:
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:15
"These Foolish Things" - Ella Fitzgerald solo vocal (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 7:40
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irving Berlin) – 3:12
"Willow Weep for Me" - Louis Armstrong solo vocal (Ann Ronell) – 4:21
"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" (Berlin) – 3:28

Side four:
"A Fine Romance" (Fields, Kern) – 3:56
"Ill Wind" - Ella Fitzgerald solo vocal (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:45
"Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:01
"I Get a Kick out of You" - Louis Armstrong solo vocal (Porter) – 4:21
"Learnin' the Blues" (Delores Vicki Silvers) – 7:11




The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve