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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Polygram Records
Salesrank: 1350
Released: August 26, 1997 |
| Our Price: $5.65 |
| Used Price: $3.60 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Track Listing:
1. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
2. Love Is Here to Stay
3. Nearness of You
4. Stars Fell on Alabama
5. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
6. They Can't Take That Away from Me
7. Autumn in New York
8. Summertime
9. Tenderly
10. Stompin' at the Savoy
11. Under a Blanket of Blue
12. I Wants to Stay Here
13. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
14. There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
15. You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
Editorial Review:
Ella Fitzgerald's voice was satin to Louis Armstrong's sandpaper, but when you put them together on a single song, their chemistry was unimpeachable. This disc selects highlights from the three albums they made together at Verve (including their Porgy and Bess), and adds a spiffy live track from the Hollywood Bowl. Though they don't harmonize much (Armstrong's voice wasn't built for harmony), Ella's dignified swing and flashes of teasing wit play off Satchmo's gritty, good-humored roar symbiotically. The material is mostly lightweight Tin Pan Alley stuff (lots of Gershwin, plus the likes of "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), and they fly it like a kite. --Douglas Wolk
Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Reviews:
Best Of Ella and Louie - Clearly Superior 
2009-07-18 - The past will last. Clearly superior - Others can learn a lot from this CD - especially modern musicians. Just so everyone will know - There are many more like this one. The past will last. We don't know that we have the future but we know that we have the past. We have Ella and Louie. I suggest that all modern jazz musicians buy and pay very close attention to this and other similar recordings.
Magic Together
2009-06-07 - The very first duet is a delight and then as one listens further the artistry of these two jazz icons is over whelming. I love this CD!
Buy It...NOW !
2008-05-01 - This is the greatest duet record of all time. This will stay in your collection Forever. Beautiful, Just simply beautiful.
Love It
2008-01-22 - 'Louis and Ella just take me on a trip through time and place me in a smokey jin joint on a Friday night..
Perfection
2007-11-18 - Masterpiece!it's a privledge to listen to this fine body of work. Like sitting in a jazz club with a private concert. I absolutely love this.
