What we have here is the mating of honey and molasses. Or is it the sound of melted butter over gravel? Never mind--sweeter, more joyous music has never been recorded (although the follow-up, Ella and Louis Again, may be even better). You can't listen to these two without smiling. It's such an inevitable pairing that you wonder what titanic forces of nature could have kept Ella and Satchmo apart until they made this record together in 1957, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Buddy Rich on drums. The songs are standards--extraordinary standards, of course, like "Moonlight in Vermont" and "A Foggy Day"--but nirvana is reached on "Cheek to Cheek." Heaven. --Jim Emerson

Track List:

1.Can't We Be Friends? (George And Ira Gershwin) - 3:45
2. Isn't This A Lovely Day? (George And Ira Gershwin) - 6:14
3. Moonlight In Vermont (George And Ira Gershwin) - 3:40
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me (George And Ira Gershwin) - 4:37
5. Under A Blanket Of Blue (George And Ira Gershwin) - 4:16
6. Tenderly (George And Ira Gershwin) - 5:06
7. A Foggy Day (George And Ira Gershwin) - 4:30
8. Stars Fell On Alabama (George And Ira Gershwin) - 3:31
9. Cheek To Cheek (George And Ira Gershwin) - 5:51
10. The Nearness Of You (George And Ira Gershwin) - 5:40
11. April In Paris (George And Ira Gershwin) - 6:32

Personnel:

Louis Armstrong (trumpet, vocal), Ella Fitzgerald (vocal), Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), Buddy Rich (drums).

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