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Recorded in 1957, Ella & Louis Again re-teams Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong after the success of their first album and a popular series of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl the previous year. Stylistically, Fitzgerald and Armstrong had very different histories; he started out in Dixieland before branching out into classic jazz and swing, whereas Fitzgerald started out as a swing-oriented big-band vocalist before becoming an expert bebopper. But the two of them have no problem finding common ground on Ella & Louis Again, which is primarily a collection of vocal duets (with the backing of a solid rhythm section led by pianist Oscar Peterson). One could nitpick about the fact that Satchmo doesn't take more trumpet solos, but the artists have such a strong rapport as vocalists that the trumpet shortage is only a minor point. Seven selections find either Fitzgerald or Armstrong singing without the other, although they're together more often than not on this fine set.
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Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Mitchell Parish, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Donaldson, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Gus Kahn, Author - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - CHARLES TOBIAS, ComposerLyricist - Lew Brown, ComposerLyricist - SAM H. STEPT, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chick William Webb, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer - Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Hammerstein II , ComposerLyricist - Otto Harbach, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Don Redman, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer - Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jack Strachey, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Holt Marvell, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ann Ronell, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Ted Koehler, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Dolores Vicki Silvers, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Recorded in 1957, Ella & Louis Again re-teams Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong after the success of their first album and a popular series of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl the previous year. Stylistically, Fitzgerald and Armstrong had very different histories; he started out in Dixieland before branching out into classic jazz and swing, whereas Fitzgerald started out as a swing-oriented big-band vocalist before becoming an expert bebopper. But the two of them have no problem finding common ground on Ella & Louis Again, which is primarily a collection of vocal duets (with the backing of a solid rhythm section led by pianist Oscar Peterson). One could nitpick about the fact that Satchmo doesn't take more trumpet solos, but the artists have such a strong rapport as vocalists that the trumpet shortage is only a minor point. Seven selections find either Fitzgerald or Armstrong singing without the other, although they're together more often than not on this fine set.
© Alex Henderson /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:30:18
- Main artists: Ella Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz Vocal Jazz
© 2013 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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