Ella and Louis

Ella and Louis
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
ReleasedOctober 1956[1][2][3]
Recorded16 August 1956
StudioCapitol (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length54:06
LabelVerve MGV 4003
Polygram 825 373-2 (1989)
ProducerNorman Granz
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Ella and Louis is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956.[1][2][3][4] Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, this was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957's Ella and Louis Again and 1959's Porgy and Bess.

The album

Norman Granz, the founder of the Verve label, selected eleven ballads for Fitzgerald and Armstrong, mainly played in a slow or moderate tempo. Recording began 16 August 1956, at the new Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Though Granz produced the album, Armstrong was given final say over songs and keys.[5]

The success of Ella and Louis was replicated by Ella and Louis Again and Porgy and Bess. All three were released as The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve. Verve also released the album as one of the first ones in SACD.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[9]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[7]

AllMusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong make for a charming team on this CD… This is primarily a vocal set with the emphasis on tasteful renditions of ballads."[6] Jasen and Jones called the set a "pinnacle of popular singing".[10] The Penguin Guide to Jazz, compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, says that while the approaches of Armstrong and Fitzgerald may not have been entirely compatible, the results are "hard to resist", and awards the album three and a half stars.[9]

In 2000 it was voted number 636 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[11]

Björk chose the album as one of her favourites in a 1993 Q feature. "I love the way Ella and Louis work together," she remarked. "They were opposites in how they sung, but were still completely functional together, and respectful of each other."

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Can't We Be Friends?"Paul James, Kay Swift3:47
2."Isn't This a Lovely Day?"Irving Berlin6:16
3."Moonlight in Vermont"John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf3:42
4."They Can't Take That Away from Me"Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin4:39
5."Under a Blanket of Blue"Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes4:18
6."Tenderly"Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence5:10

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."A Foggy Day"Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin4:32
2."Stars Fell on Alabama"Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins3:34
3."Cheek to Cheek"Irving Berlin5:53
4."The Nearness of You"Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington5:42
5."April in Paris"Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg6:33

Personnel

Additional personnel

  • Val Valentin – session engineer
  • Phil Stern – photography

Charts

2022 chart performance for Ella and Louis
Chart (2022) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12] 66

Sources

  1. ^ a b "October Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 6 October 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Ella and Louis". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 13 October 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Pop Albums Coming Up Strong". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 3 November 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  4. ^ Giddins, Gary (2009). Satchmo : the wonderful world and art of Louis Armstrong. Abrams. p. 227. ISBN 9780810995284.
  5. ^ Maxwell, Tom (November 2016). "The Story of 'Ella and Louis,' 60 Years Later". Longreads. Longreads.com. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  6. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Ella and Louis > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 78. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  8. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  9. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  10. ^ Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz, by David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, 272 pages, Routledge Chapman & Hall (September 2001), ISBN 0-415-93641-1, ISBN 978-0-415-93641-5]
  11. ^ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 209. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
  12. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 July 2022.

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