Summertime

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1957

Context

Air from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on a Verve album produced by Norman Granz, arranged and conducted by Russell Garcia. The sessions took place in Los Angeles on August 18 and October 14, 1957; Armstrong sings and plays trumpet on it.

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

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

Sources

• freshsoundrecords.com
• jazz.com

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