Album: Ella Swings Lightly by Ella Fitzgerald (1958)
Genre: Pop | Style: Jazz | Mood: Happy
Format: Album

Description: Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette. Ella also worked with Marty Paich on her 1967 album Whisper Not. The album features a typical selection of jazz standards from this era, songs from recent musicals like Frank Loesser's If I Were a Bell, and a famous jazz instrumental vocalised by Ella, Roy Eldridge's Little Jazz. The album won Ella the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Artist Background: Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recordin... Part of the Newport News, Virginia, USA music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Related Artists: Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington

Music Scene: Part of the Newport News, Virginia, USA music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Pop, Jazz, Happy, classic, Album


Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette. Ella also worked with Marty Paich on her 1967 album Whisper Not. The album features a typical selection of jazz standards from this era, songs from recent musicals like Frank Loesser's If I Were a Bell, and a famous jazz instrumental vocalised by Ella, Roy Eldridge's Little Jazz. The album won Ella the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Ella Swings Lightly

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