Ella & Louis

• Artist : Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0731454330428
• Format : Original recording reissued
• Format : Original recording remastered
• Label : Verve
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : Verve
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.35 inches (Height) x 5.67 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.00 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Verve
• Release Date : 2000-04-24
• SKU : AB00000000F2
• Studio : Verve
• UPC : 731454330428

What we have here is the mating of honey and molasses. Or is it the sound of melted butter over gravel? Never mind--sweeter, more joyous music has never been recorded (although the follow-up, Ella and Louis Again, may be even better). You can't listen to these two without smiling. It's such an inevitable pairing that you wonder what titanic forces of nature could have kept Ella and Satchmo apart until they made this record together in 1957, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Buddy Rich on drums. The songs are standards--extraordinary standards, of course, like "Moonlight in Vermont" and "A Foggy Day"--but nirvana is reached on "Cheek to Cheek". Heaven. --Jim Emerson

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Can't We Be Friends?
  • 2: Isn't This A Lovely Day?
  • 3: Moonlight In Vermont
  • 4: They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • 5: Under A Blanket Of Blue
  • 6: Tenderly
  • 7: A Foggy Day
  • 8: Stars Fell On Alabama
  • 9: Cheek To Cheek
  • 10: The Nearness Of You
  • 11: April In Paris

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