Author: Fitzgerald & Armstrong

Features:

• ELLA & LOUIS
• MUSICA CLASICA
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Remixes included

PartNumber: 6 3 08274752

Release Date: 01-11-1985

Details: Amazon.ca Getting the two most personable voices in jazz to sing an hour's worth of George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess (Ella doing all the female parts, Satchmo all the male) was a good idea, but not quite as great as it sounded. Armstrong savours the down-and-dirty Charlestonisms that inspired the cadences of the music and lyrics and they fit his happy rasp like an old shoe; Fitzgerald, conversely, sounds almost prissy every time she has to sing the word "ain't", though her melodic genius gets Gershwin's bold, supple tunes over. The arrangements are full-throttle Broadway, with a few leaps into Dixieland (including some fine Armstrong trumpet solos), but the disc works best when the vocalists break character and let their jazz side out. --Douglas Wolk Product description ELLA & LOUIS

UPC: 042282747525

EAN: 0042282747525

Model: 6 3 08274752

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood