Ella Swings Lightly


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.

Track listing

For the 1958 Verve 2-LP album, Verve MG V-4021
Side One:
  1. "Little White Lies" – 2:31
  2. "You Hit the Spot" – 2:44
  3. "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" – 2:38
  4. "Just You, Just Me" – 2:19
  5. "As Long as I Live" – 2:48
  6. "Teardrops from My Eyes" – 3:45
  7. "Gotta Be This or That" – 3:05
  8. "Moonlight on the Ganges" Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace) – 2:22
Side Two:
  2. "My Kinda Love" – 3:41
  3. "Blues in the Night" – 3:39
  4. "If I Were a Bell" – 2:33
  5. "You're an Old Smoothie" – 2:45
  6. "Little Jazz" – 3:02
  7. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" – 2:18
  8. "Knock Me a Kiss" – 4:06
  9. "720 in the Books" – 2:52
Bonus Tracks; Issued on the Verve 1992 CD re-issue, Verve-PolyGram 314-5372582
  2. "Oh, What a Night for Love" – 3:26
  3. "Little Jazz" – 3:01
  4. "Dreams Are Made for Children" – 2:36
  5. "Oh, What a Night for Love" – 2:24

Personnel

Recorded on November 22–23, 1958, in Hollywood, Los Angeles:
Tracks 2–4, 6, 9–11
Radio Recorders, Hollywood, November 22, 1958, Marty Paich's Dek-Tette: Bud Shank Bill Holman Med Flory Lou Levy Joe Mondragon Mel Lewis Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino Bob Enevoldsen Vincent DeRosa
Tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 12–20
Radio Recorders, Hollywood, November 23, 1958, Marty Paich's Dek-Tette: Bud Shank Bill Holman Med Flory Lou Levy Joe Mondragon Mel Lewis Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino Bob Enevoldsen Vincent DeRosa