ELLA FITZGERALD & LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Gershwin, who even learned to chant with the Gullah, absorbed the tonalities of the street cries he heard and wove them — along with all of the other impressions stored within his sensitive mind — into the fabric of his opera. What’s really great about the Ella and Louis version is Ella, who handles each aria with disarming delicacy, clarion intensity, or usually a blend of both. Her take on “Buzzard Song” is a thrilling example of this woman’s intrinsic theatrical genius. Pops sounds like he really savored each duet, and his trumpet work — not a whole lot of it, because this is not a trumpeter’s opera — is characteristically good as gold.

TRACK LISTING

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. I Wants To Stay Here
4. My Man’s Gone Now
5. I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
6. Buzzard Song
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. It Ain’t Necessarily So
9. What You Want Wid Bess?
10. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
11. Oh, Doctor Jesus
12. Medley: Here Come De Honey Man / Crab Man / Oh, Dey’s So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)
13. There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin Soon For New York
14. Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
15. Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way!

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