- jazz, vocal jazz, smooth jazz
- 54 min
- 11 tracks
- Verve
Ella and Louis is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956. 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.
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Character
Classical in form, warm, intimate and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 ★
- The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Can't We Be Friends3:49
- 2Isn’t This a Lovely Day6:18
- 3Moonlight in Vermont3:43
- 4They Can’t Take That Away From Me4:41
- 5Under a Blanket of Blue4:19
- 6Tenderly5:09
- 7A Foggy Day4:34
- 8Stars Fell on Alabama3:35
- 9Cheek to Cheek5:55
- 10The Nearness of You5:43
- 11April in Paris6:32
11 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
- Label
- Verve
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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