Ella & Louis Again

LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs

HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY

THE WAY THIS MUSIC WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD

180 gram VINYL -AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

Ella & Louis Again marks the second album produced by Norman

Granz (on his Verve label), pairing Ella Fitzgerald and Louis

Armstrong. After recording a series of duets in the late 1940s for the

Decca label, they were summoned by Granz in 1956 to cut sessions

that would result in the memorable Ella and Louis. Such was the

success of the LP, that the formula was repeated the following year

with the making of Ella and Louis Again. (Their third and final album

for Granz would be a version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.) To get

such marvellous results, Granz surrounded the stars by almost the

same superb quartet that had backed them on their previous LP:

Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass,

and Louis Bellson replacing Buddy Rich on drums. While the first

album only included duets, Ella and Louis Again was first issued as a

double-LP set that also contained some songs performed individually

by either Ella or Louis. This extended single-LP edition compiles all of

their duets from these sessions, while discarding all of the songs on

which either Ella or Louis sit out.