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They Can't Take That Away from Me

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1956

Context

Fourth track of Ella and Louis, the first of the three albums by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Verve, recorded on 16 August 1956 with the Oscar Peterson quartet. Norman Granz had selected eleven ballads, mostly at slow or medium tempo.

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

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