Ella and Louis

Ella and Louis
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
ReleasedOctober 1956[1][2][3]
Recorded16 August 1956
StudioCapitol (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length54:06
LabelVerve MGV 4003
Polygram 825 373-2 (1989)
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
(1956) 		Ella and Louis
(1956) 		Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
(1956)
Louis Armstrong chronology
The Great Chicago Concert
(1956) 		Ella and Louis
(1956) 		I've Got the World on a String
(1957)

Ella and Louis is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956.[1][2][3][4] 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.

  1. ^ a b "October Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 6 October 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Ella and Louis". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 13 October 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Pop Albums Coming Up Strong". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 3 November 1956. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  4. ^ Giddins, Gary (2009). Satchmo : the wonderful world and art of Louis Armstrong. Abrams. p. 227. ISBN 9780810995284.