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Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson

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Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
Studio album by
ReleasedLate 1959[1]
RecordedJuly 31 and October 14, 1957
StudioCapitol (Hollywood)
GenreJazz
Length70:02
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Louis Armstrong chronology
Porgy and Bess
(1957)
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
(1959)
Louis and the Angels
(1957)
Oscar Peterson chronology
Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1957)
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
(1957)
Oscar Peterson at the Concertgebouw
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
DownBeat[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1959 studio album (recorded in 1957) by Louis Armstrong, accompanied by Oscar Peterson.[6]

The album was reissued in 1997 on CD with four bonus tracks, recorded at the sessions that produced Ella and Louis Again.[7]

Track listing

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  1. "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain) – 2:42
  2. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  3. "I'll Never Be the Same" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Gus Kahn) – 3:29
  4. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:10
  5. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:56
  6. "I Was Doing All Right" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:20
  7. "What's New?" (Sonny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 2:40
  8. "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 4:31
  9. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 4:02
  10. "There's No You" (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) – 2:14
  11. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 6:24
  12. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 5:11

Bonus tracks

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  1. "I Get a Kick out of You" (Porter) – 4:16
  2. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Kahn) – 3:55
  3. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:16
  4. "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (Porter) – 8:42

Personnel

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Performance

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Production

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References

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  1. ^ "Billboard". 30 November 1959.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Tynan, John A. (4 February 1960). "Vocal". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 3. pp. 28–29.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 12. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ^ Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson at AllMusic
  7. ^ Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson Verve Music Group. Accessed July 13, 2008.