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Louis Armstrong mingles with Grace Kelly in 1956, pictured on the set of High Society. Ella Fitzgerald poses in a 1962 publicity photo. The collaborations between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong have attracted much attention over the years.
Aug 16, 2023 · Charles Waring. Cover: Courtesy of Universal Music. The old adage that opposites attract couldn’t be more apt in the case of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, whose album collaborations...
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Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess.
Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, this was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957's Ella and Louis Again and 1959's Porgy and Bess.
Although they had previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, Ella and Louis began a critical and commercial streak for the pair, with many follow-ups under Norman...
Dec 12, 2019 · December 12, 2019. By. uDiscover Team. The third, and final, album that Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald recorded together was a break from the formula of the first two. Gone is the...
Aug 16, 2016 · Norman Granz who had earlier in the year formed Verve Records, principally to release the music of Ella Fitzgerald, decided to put his star singer in the studio with Louis Armstrong, and...
