Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Compact Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1988)

The Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong edition of Verve's long-running Compact Jazz series of reissues condenses three remarkable albums - 1955's Ella and Louis, 1956's Ella and Louis againN, and 1958's porgy and bess - into a fantastic 12-track collection. Of course, you could pick and random assortment of 12 tracks from these three discs and have a collection of fantastic merit, but these specific performances are particularly outstandin.