Ella & Louis – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Deluxe CD digipack edition – the complete album + 3 bonus tracks, includes specially prepared liner notes by renowned jazz writer Brian Morton. Although both Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong had probably met and performed together previously, they wouldn’t be heard on record together until 1946, when they waxed a 78rpm single coupling ‘The Frim Fram Sauce ‘ with ‘You Won’t Be Satisfied’. They wouldn’t record a lot together until 1956, when producer Norman Granz reunited them for three memorable albums: Ella & Louis (presented here), it’s sequel Ella & Louis Again and the selection of tunes from George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy & Bess. The results? Some of the most fascinating jazz music ever produced. Includes the bonus tracks ‘Don’t Be That Way’, ‘Learnin’ The Blues’ and ‘Autumn In New York’. “Ella & Louis is one of the very, very few albums to have been issued in this era of the LP flood that is sure to endure for decades.” – * Nat Hentoff, DownBeat