Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport

Infobox Album | Name = Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
Type = Live album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday

| Released = 1958
Recorded = July 4 - 6, 1957
Genre = Jazz
Length = 73:54
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3mklu3qgan1k link] | Last album = "Porgy and Bess"
(1957)
This album = " Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport "
(1958)
Next album = "Ella Swings Lightly"
(1958) |

"Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport" is a 1958 (see 1958 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday recorded at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival.

Fitzgerald's first track promoted her recent album "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook" (1956), and after several teething problems with the microphone, and tempo problems on "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)", she delivers a stunning scat solo on "Air Mail Special", quoting from several recent pop hits.

Holiday is introduced by Johnny Mercer and Carmen McRae's performance of that year was featured on this albums 2000 Verve CD Reissue.

Track listing

# "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 1:44
# "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:27
# "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:28
# "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 2:30
# "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, Weiss) – 2:23
# "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:26
# "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:26
# "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 4:02
# "Air Mail Special" (Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy) – 4:34
# "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 7:00
# "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:39
# "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 3:10
# "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:32
# "Lady Sings the Blues" (Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols) – 3:02
# "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:19
# "I'll Remember April" (Gene DePaul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 2:44
# "Body and Soul" – 3:34
# Carmen McRae introduces "Skyliner" – 0:18
# "Skyliner" (Charlie Barnet) – 2:13
# Carmen McRae Introduces the Band and "Midnight Sun" – 1:03
# "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer) – 4:12
# "Our Love is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:14
# "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 2:47

Personnel

Recorded July 4 - 6, 1957, Newport, Rhode Island:

* Tracks 1-10 (July 4, 1957)
* Ella Fitzgerald (vocals)
* Don Abney (piano)
* Wendell Marshall (double bass)
* Jo Jones (drums)

* Tracks 11-16 (July 6, 1957)
* Billie Holiday (vocals)
* Mal Waldron (piano)
* Joe Benjamin (double bass)
* Jo Jones (drums)

* Tracks 17-24 (July 5, 1957)
* Carmen McRae (vocals, piano)
* Ray Bryant, Junior Mance (piano)
* Ike Issacs (double bass)
* Jimmy Cobb, Specs Wright (drums)