Seminal record producer Norman Granz masterminded the affair. The recording sessions getting started in August 1956, the tracks specifically featured Oscar Peterson on piano, Buddy Rich on drums, Herb Ellis on guitar, and Ray Brown on bass. The studio album came out when both figures were at high points in their careers commercially. Release details Įlla and Louis found Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. Fitzgerald allowed Louis to choose the keys in which to sing the repertoire and together they recorded the first of three albums, Ella and Louis. Granz also persuaded Armstrong to forsake his own trad jazz group and embrace the modern sound of Oscar Peterson and composers such as Porter and Berlin. The idea of entire duet album came about from Verve's Norman Granz who had the idea to pair Fitzgerald and Armstrong. Like Fitzgerald, Armstrong picked up popular nicknames, in his case "Pops" and "Satchmo", that stuck, and critics praised him by the 1950s as a sort of elder statesman of popular music.įitzgerald appeared in many duets in the Forties, appearing on recordings with, among others, The Ink Spots, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong as well as a host of instrumentalists from the Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe. Coming to prominence first as an inventive player, Armstrong attracted notice for shifting the focus in his records from collective improvisations to turn-by-turn solo performances.
His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras both musically and also in terms of U.S. Louis Armstrong (Aug– July 6, 1971) was an African-American jazz singer and trumpeter as well as composer who ended up being one of the most pivotal and influential figures in not just jazz-related styles but across popular music. Many critics of the time regarded her as one of the best female vocalists still making music. In the 1950s, the depth and scope of her many releases had already attracted major attention. "Lady Ella" attracted notoriety for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, lyrical phrasing, and vocal intonation her instrument-like improvisational ability with her voice, particularly in her scat singing, proved popular with many audiences. Ella Fitzgerald (Ap– June 15, 1996) was an African-American jazz vocalist often referred to by honorific nicknames such as the "First Lady of Song" and the "Queen of Jazz".
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