- Ella and Oscar
Infobox Album | Name = Ella and Oscar
Type =Album
Artist =Ella Fitzgerald
| Released = 1975
Recorded =May 19 1975
Genre =Jazz
Length = 44:10
Label =Pablo Records
Producer =Norman Granz
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&&sql=10:ktkxikmhbb29 link] | Last album = "Ella in London "
(1974)
This album = "Ella and Oscar"
(1975)
Next album = "Montreux '75 "
(1975)|"Ella and Oscar" is a 1975 (see
1975 in music ) studioalbum by the Americanjazz singerElla Fitzgerald , accompanied by the pianistOscar Peterson and, for the second half of the album, the jazz double bassist (and Ella's former husband) Ray Brown.Fitzgerald's voice always worked well with just piano accompaniment, her previous two albums in this vein were 1950's "
Pure Ella " (withEllis Larkins ) and 1960's "Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph " with Paul Smith.Track listing
# "Mean to Me" (
Fred E. Ahlert ,Roy Turk ) – 3:30
# "How Long Has This Been Going On? " (George Gershwin ,Ira Gershwin ) – 4:59
# "When Your Lover Has Gone " (Einar Aaron Swan ) – 4:58
# "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu ,Billy Rose ,Vincent Youmans ) – 4:37
# "There's a Lull in My Life" (Mack Gordon ,Harry Revel ) – 4:58
# "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke ,Lionel Hampton ,Johnny Mercer ) – 3:40
# "I Hear Music " (Burton Lane ,Frank Loesser ) – 5:12
# "Street of Dreams " (Sam M. Lewis ,Victor Young ) – 4:08
# "April in Paris " (Vernon Duke ,Yip Harburg ) – 8:37Personnel
Recorded
May 19 1975 , at Cherokee Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA
*Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
*Oscar Peterson - Piano
* Ray Brown - Double Bass
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