Recording Together For The First Time (studio album)
by Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington

Recording Together For The First Time by Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington
Year: 1961
Overall rank: 18,127th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 24 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1961 (76th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,196th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,127th)

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Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington bestography

Recording Together For The First Time is ranked 2nd best out of 3 albums by Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington is The Great Reunion which is ranked number 11793 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 98.

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Recording Together For The First Time rankings

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Overall rank: 18,127th | 1960s rank: 1,196th | 1961 rank: 76th

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74/100 (from 24 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.0.

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From 06/08/2021 13:17 | #270470
This album combines the two albums that Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington collaborated on into a single album. It takes the two historic recordings and transforms them into a solitary celebration of these great musicians/icons of Jazz. The package was originally released in 1984. The release I have on hand is (Cat #: MFCD 2-807) by the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Authenticated on discogs.com
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