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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess (1993) Retail CD
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Getting the two most personable voices in jazz to sing an hour's worth of George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess (Ella doing all the female parts, Satchmo all the male) was a good idea, but not quite as great as it sounded. Armstrong savours the down-and-dirty Charlestonisms that inspired the cadences of the music and lyrics and they fit his happy rasp like an old shoe; Fitzgerald, conversely, sounds almost prissy every time she has to sing the word "ain't", though her melodic genius gets Gershwin's bold, supple tunes over. The arrangements are full-throttle Broadway, with a few leaps intomore…
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- Title:
- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Porgy and Bess (1993) Retail CD
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- Front
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- 804 x 800 px
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- 286 KB
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- 15/04/07 by allcdcovers
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