| Ella and Louis Again | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong |
| Cover: | ellalouisagain.jpg |
| Released: | October 1957 |
| Recorded: | July 23, July 31 and August 13, 1957 |
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| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 90:26 |
| Label: | Verve MGV 4006-2 Verve 0602517036918 (2006) |
| Producer: | Norman Granz |
| Chronology: | Ella Fitzgerald |
| Prev Title: | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook |
| Prev Year: | 1956 |
| Next Title: | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook |
| Next Year: | 1957 |
Ella and Louis Again is a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, released in 1957 on Verve Records. It is the sequel to their 1956 album, Ella and Louis. In contrast to their previous collaboration, this album features seven solo vocal tracks by either Armstrong or Fitzgerald amongst its dozen duet tracks. It was reissued as part of a two-compact disc set in 1995, and in The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve in 1997. It was recorded at Radio Recorders and Capitol Studios, Hollywood.[1]
In addition to the album not being strictly all vocal duets, whereas on its predecessor Armstrong plays trumpet on every track, here he only plays on six. The Oscar Peterson Trio returns as the duo's backing, this time along with drummer Louie Bellson. Writing for AllMusic, music critic Alex Henderson wrote of the album:
One could nit-pick about the fact that Satchmo doesn't take more trumpet solos, but the artists have such a strong rapport as vocalists that the trumpet shortage is only a minor point. Seven selections find either Fitzgerald or Armstrong singing without the other, although they're together more often than not on this fine recording.
In 1995 and 2003, a double CD was released with the same content as the double LP, but in 2000, a single CD was released with only the 12 duets, removing the 7 songs with either Armstrong or Fitzgerald solo vocal: