Ella and Louis
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| Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong | |||||
| Released | October/November 1956 | ||||
| Recorded | August 16, 1956 Capitol Studios, Los Angeles |
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| Genre | Vocal jazz | ||||
| Length | 54:06 | ||||
| Label | Verve | ||||
| Producer | Norman Granz | ||||
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Ella and Louis is a 1956 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. 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.
Norman Granz, the founder of the Verve label, selected eleven ballads for Fitzgerald and Armstrong, mainly played in a slow or moderate tempo. They were arranged and conducted by Verve Record's resident arranger/conductor and Head of A&R, Buddy Bregman. Recording began August 16, 1956, at the new, and now iconic, Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Though Granz produced the album, Armstrong was given final say over songs and keys.
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 released the album also as one of the first ones in Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD).
This album joined the Grammy Hall of Fame on November 22, 2015.
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "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."
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