Title: Ella Fitzgerald / Oscar Peterson | Ella And Oscar

Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1975, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Los Angeles

Matrix #: 2310-759

Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great, a few very light marks (CC)

Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle By this stage Ella was performing through diabetes and declining eyesight, still delivering with grace while carrying the physical strain of decades on the road.
2. Studio Lore This was a stripped-back duet date, letting Peterson’s piano sit close to Ella’s voice without heavy orchestration or big-band framing.
3. Media Narrative Records like this helped keep Ella from being boxed in as only a swing-era legend, showing she could still sound intimate, modern, and fully in command decades later.

4/18/2026 CC