Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis – Vinyl LP

THE COMPLETE ALBUM – 180g VINYL AUDIOPHILE PRESSING – GATEFOLD SLEEVE.

This was the first album pairing Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong produced by Norman Granz for his Verve label. After recording a series of duets in the late 1940s for the Decca label, they were summoned by Granz in 1956 to make a series of sessions which would result in the present LP and two further double sets: Ella and Louis Again, and Porgy and

Bess. To get the marvellous music heard here, Granz surrounded the stars with an outstanding quartet, consisting of Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, and Buddy Rich on drums.

Side A
1 April in Paris
2 The Nearness of You
3 Cheek to Cheek
4 Stars Fell on Alabama
5 A Foggy Day

Side B
1 Tenderly
2 Under a Blanket of Blue
3 They Can’t Take That Away from Me
4 Moonlight in Vermont
5 Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
6 Can’t We Be Friends