Cheek to Cheek

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1956

Context

Written by Irving Berlin, "Cheek to Cheek" is on the program of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's first recorded meeting, cut on August 16, 1956, at the new Capitol Studios in Hollywood. The contrast between Armstrong's gravelly voice and Fitzgerald's precision gives the album Ella and Louis, released in October 1956, its appeal, and it has since been regarded as a high point of popular singing.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Stars Fell on Alabama (1956)
• Summertime (1957)
• Autumn in New York (1957)
• Mood Indigo (Armstrong-Ellington) (1961)
• Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (1947)
• What a Wonderful World (1967)

Sources

• EN: Ella and Louis

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