Ella & Louis
by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong bestography
Ella & Louis is ranked as the best album by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Ella & Louis track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ella & Louis rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 41 Music Albums of 1956 | 10/41 | 4 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1956 | 15/20 | 2 |
| 2026 |  JR | Top 34 Music Albums of the 1950s | 21/34 | 8 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 20/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 21/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | mostlymor | Top 10 Music Albums of 1956 | 5/10 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | Top 10 Music Albums of 1956 | 5/10 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1956 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 48/100 | 11 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 237 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,688 | |||
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Ella & Louis ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/01/2026 14:32 |  Dingerbell | 4,157 | 63/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2026 16:12 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2026 16:37 | CrazyDiamond84 | 110 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.8/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Ella & Louis forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/12/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5371): By seb7
Romanelli 03/14/2025 18:40 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Romanelli 12/05/2024 20:53 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Classics Volume 24Ella & Louis comments
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souplipton 06/19/2016 04:31 | #169110 | TOP COMMENT
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I usually prefer instrumental bop influenced jazz, finding the pop influenced vocal jazz music to be lacking in much depth, bu this album is definitely an exception. The interplay between the two voices and between Ella's singing and Louis' trumpet are exceptional. As well, the backing band does a terrific job, particularly Oscar Peterson on the piano. An excellent and smooth pop album from the jazz era.
calsper 12/12/2014 08:39 | #129246 | TOP COMMENT
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Really a great album and an interpretational classic / Ella and Louis are great vocalists who complement each other beatifully (Ella's velvet and Satchmo's roar of thunder).
Definitely recommendable to hear on a rainy Sunday or e.g. here at Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all music lovers and thank you so much to the creators for a great community.
5 first songs they do omgoddishly. and the ender. the rest is good too. nothing bad here.
Such a perfect collab makes nearly every song here a classic. Ella's absolutely wonderful Voice and Louis's deep tone, both in his playing and in his singing completes each other in a unique way, never quite to be done again.
For the majority of us in this site, this album represents a part of recent history of human relationships that we don't really know how It was, so hearing songs like "Cheek to Cheek" feels as If we were travelling in a time were everything, to us, seemed so simple.
seb7 06/25/2022 06:10 | #286649 | TOP COMMENT
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Ella with the voice of an angel, Louis with the voice of the heart. Paired with some absolutely great jazz tunes, this album is one of the best ever made!! Reminds me of 1950s Paris in the winter
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