Ella and Louis: Difference between revisions

| artist = [[Ella Fitzgerald]], and [[Louis Armstrong]]

| recorded = 16 August 16, 1956<br>Capitol Studios, [[Los Angeles]]

| studio = [[Capitol Studios|Capitol]] (Hollywood)

[[Norman Granz]], the founder of the Verve label, selected eleven ballads for Fitzgerald and Armstrong, mainly played in a slow or moderate tempo. Recording began 16 August 16, 1956, at the new, and now iconic, [[Capitol Records Building|Capitol Studios]] in Hollywood. Though Granz produced the album, Armstrong was given final say over songs and keys.<ref name="Longreads">{{cite web|last1=Maxwell|first1=Tom|title=The Story of 'Ella and Louis,' 60 Years Later|url=https://blog.longreads.com/2016/11/07/the-story-of-ella-and-louis-60-years-later/|website=Longreads|publisher=Longreads.com|access-date=21 November 2016|date=November 2016}}</ref>

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= ''Ella and Louis'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r138694 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=June 28, June 2011}}</ref>

|rev2rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''

| rev2Scorerev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book

| rev3rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''

| rev3Scorerev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>

|rev4rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''

|rev4scorerev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 45}}</ref>

[[AllMusic]]'s [[Scott Yanow]] wrote, "[[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Louis Armstrong]] make for a charming team on this CD… This is primarily a vocal set with the emphasis on tasteful renditions of ballads."<ref name="AM" /> Jasen and Jones called the set a "pinnacle of popular singing".<ref>''Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz'', by David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, 272 pages, Routledge Chapman & Hall (September 2001), {{ISBN|0-415-93641-1}}, {{ISBN|978-0-415-93641-5}}]</ref> ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'', compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, awardedsays that while the approaches of Armstrong and Fitzgerald may not have been entirely compatible, the results are "hard to resist", and awards the album three and a half stars.<ref name="Penguin"/>

[[Björk]] chose the album as one of her favourites in a 1993 ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine feature. "I love the way Ella and Louis work together," she remarked. "They were opposites in how they sung, but were still completely functional together, and respectful of each other."

| writer6 = [[Walter Gross (musician)|Walter Gross]], [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]]

*[[Val Valentin]] – session engineer