Ella Swings Lightly

Ella Swings Lightly
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald
Released1958
RecordedNovember 22–23, 1958
GenreJazz
Length58:34
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
One O'Clock Jump”
(1957) 		Ella Swings Lightly
(1958) 		Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

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 musicals like Frank Loesser's If I Were a Bell, and a famous jazz instrumental vocalised by Ella, Roy Eldridge's Little Jazz.

This album won Ella the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

  1. ^ "Ella Swings Lightly". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.