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The Songs Ella & Louis Sang

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The Songs Ella & Louis Sang
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Studio album by
Carol Sloane & Clark Terry
ReleasedOctober 1997 (1997-10)
Genre Jazz [1]
Label Concord Jazz
Producer
Carol Sloane chronology
The Songs Sinatra Sang
(1996)		The Songs Ella & Louis Sang
(1997)		 Romantic Ellington
(1999)
Clark Terry chronology
Clark Terry Express
(1996)		The Songs Ella & Louis Sang
(1997)		 One on One
(2000)

The Songs Ella & Louis Sang is a studio album between American singer Carol Sloane and American flugelhorn player, Clark Terry. It was released in October 1997 by Concord Jazz. The album pays tribute to the duet recordings made between Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald while they were at Verve Records. It received a positive critical reception following its release.

Contents

Background, recording and content

Flugelhorn player, Clark Terry, found jazz acclaim working with big bands in the 1940s and then as a solo artist in the 1950s. [2] Vocalist, Carol Sloane, initially had jazz success with two albums for Columbia Records in the 1960s but her career stalled in the US until it was reignited with releases on Concord Jazz in the 1990s. [3] The Songs Ella & Louis was a collaboration between Sloane and Terry. It pays tribute to the music made between Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald at Verve Records. [4] The project was produced by John Burk and Allen Farnham [5] and contained 12 tracks. The songs chosen were not only songs originally recorded by Armstrong and Fitzgerald together, but also songs they had recorded separately. Terry not only plays his instrument but also sings with Sloane. [1] In an interview with Billboard , Sloane recalled trying to evoke the same style that the songs were originally performed in: Clark and I stay close to the way Ella and Louis did it. I pretty much sing the things straight, and he growls away in the background and throws in ad-libs. It's wonderfully funny." [4]

Release and critical reception

The Songs Ella & Louis Sang was released by Concord Jazz in October 1997 and was distributed as a compact disc (CD) in its initial release. [5] The project generated positive critical reception. Fred Bouchard of the Jazz Times praised the pair's performance style, writing, "They capture the spirit of Ella and Louis who did duet most of these at similarly leisurely tempos on their Ella & Louis albums, and Carol and Clark easily key on their mellow swing and savor the gracious humor." [6] Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic gave the album a four-star rating and found the album pays a solid tribute to the original artists while showing the Sloane-Terry pairing in their own musical styles. "Carol Sloane and Clark Terry are definitely not imitators of anybody; it is their inimitable styles, mannerisms, lyrical bents, and distinctive senses of humor that make this disc happen." [1] Biographer, Will Friedwald, called the album a "first rate offering" when describing Sloane's Concord discography from the era. [7]

Track listing

The Songs Ella & Louis Sang [5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Won't Dance"
5:00
2."Tenderly"
4:22
3."Don't Be That Way"
6:17
4."Can't We Be Friends?"
4:32
5."Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?"
4:28
6."Autumn in New York" Vernon Duke 5:34
7."Let's Do It" Cole Porter 5:07
8."The Stars Fell on Alabama"
4:57
9."Moonlight in Vermont"
4:13
10."Blueberry Hill"
5:37
11."Stompin' at the Savoy"
5:43
12."When It's Sleepy Time Down South"
3:26

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of The Songs Ella & Louis Sang. [5]

Release history

Release history and formats for The Songs Ella & Louis Sang
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousOctober 1997Compact disc (CD)Concord Jazz [5]
circa 2020
  • Music download
  • streaming
 [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ginell, Richard S. "Songs Ella & Louis Sang: Carol Sloane & Clark Terry". AllMusic . Retrieved 29 January 2026.
  2. ↑ Yanow, Scott. "Clark Terry Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Yanow, Scott. "Carol Sloane Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 Macnie, Jim (October 11, 1997). "The Rippingtons Dislodge Kenny G From Chart Peak" (PDF). Billboard : 45-47. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Sloane, Carol; Terry, Clark (October 1997). "The Songs Ella & Louis Sang (disc information)". Concord Jazz . US. CCD-4787-2 (CD).
  6. ↑ Bouchard, Fred (March 1, 1998). "Carol Sloane/Clark Terry: The Songs Ella & Louis Sang". Jazz Times . Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  7. ↑ Will Friedwald (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Knopf Doubleday. p. 428. ISBN   9780307379894.
  8. ↑ "The Songs Ella & Louis Sang - Album by Carol Sloane and Clark Terry". Apple Music . Retrieved 28 January 2026.
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