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Ella & Louis |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Labels - Verve |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
24 April 2000 |
| Label: |
Verve |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
731454330428 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
5709 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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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 |
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Tracks |
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Can't We Be Friends? |
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Isn't This A Lovely Day? |
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Moonlight In Vermont |
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They Can't Take That Away From Me |
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Under A Blanket Of Blue |
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Tenderly |
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A Foggy Day |
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Stars Fell On Alabama |
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Cheek To Cheek |
| 10 |
The Nearness Of You |
| 11 |
April In Paris |
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Customer Reviews |
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Classical jazz, played with feeling and enthusiasm |
Rating: 5.0 |
This CD shows off the talents of Ella and 'Satchmo' at their peak. Sounding wonderfully relaxed and enjoying themselves immensely, this recording presents some of the greatest jazz standards in probably the best setting you will ever hear. Forget the "best jazz album" compliations - buy this and see what 'best' really means. |
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Slow, but wonderfully invigorating. |
Rating: 5.0 |
If ever there were magic caught on a recording, it happened on one day in August 1956 in Los Angeles when these six musicians worked together to produce it. Ella and Louis are the vocalists, Louis alternating on trumpet. The Oscar Peterson Trio and Buddy Rich, drums complete the sextet. The tracks, all perennial favorites at the time, are ensured of immortality by this recording. All items are slow moving, but such is the buoyant, easy rhythm these artists set you will find the effect is wonderfully invigorating. Australian and Californian listeners might agree with me that the sound of Louis Armstrong's trumpet playing is similar to the sound produced by an improvised arrangement of eucalyptus leaves on a player's lips. |
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Something for those quiet nights with the significant other |
Rating: 5.0 |
Ella with her voice...Louis with his trumpet... every single song on this album warms the heart and puts you in the mood for a cuddle by the fire. Brilliantly put together, the songs are slow and smooth; an ideal gift for valentine's. Without a doubt somthing to be played with your significant other during a romantic, moonlit dinner. A must for hopeless romantics! |
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Two of the best. but..... |
Rating: 3.0 |
I have a confession to make. I think Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest female popular singer of the twentieth century. I feel better now for having said that, so at least you know where I am coming from.Some people describe the recordings that Ella and Satchmo made as classic jazz recordings. Indeed they are, and they are beautifully put together with all the class that you would expect of two of the greats. I know that both of them had tremendous fun in their collaborations. They were great friends and had the utmost respect for each other. But for me, it doesn't work. Satchmo's trumpet is very loud and brash at times, usually when the opposite is called for. When you hear a lovely ballad accentuated as only Ella can, you don't want the rough tones of Louis Armstrong 'butting in' half way through. I'm pleased that have have these recordings in my collection, and I do listen to them every now and again, however I always seem to come to the same conclusion. As hard as I try, I can't change my mind. When I listen to them both of them seperately on one of their many solo recordings, I like them, but together, apart from a few exceptions, it's not to my taste. |
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