In December 1958, “Verve” label released “Ella Swings Lightly”, album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was recorded in November 1958, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Norman Granz. This album won Ella Fitzgerald the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.
Personnel:
- Ella Fitzgerald – vocal
- Marty Paich’s Dek-Tette: Bud Shank – alto saxophone
- Bill Holman – tenor saxophone
- Med Flory – baritone saxophone
- Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino – trumpet
- Bob Enevoldsen – valve trombone, tenor saxophone
- Vincent DeRosa – French horn
- Lou Levy – piano
- Joe Mondragon – bass
- Mel Lewis – drums
Track listing:
- Little White Lies – Walter Donaldson
- You Hit the Spot – Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
- What’s Your Story, Morning Glory? – Jack Lawrence, Paul Francis Webster, Mary Lou Williams
- Just You, Just Me – Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages
- As Long as I Live – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
- Teardrops from My Eyes – Rudy Toombs
- Gotta Be This or That – Sunny Skylar
- Moonlight on the Ganges – Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace
- My Kinda Love – Louis Alter, Jo Trent
- Blues in the Night – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
- If I Were a Bell – Frank Loesser
- You’re an Old Smoothie – Nacio Herb Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Richard A. Whiting
- Little Jazz – Roy Eldridge, Buster Harding
- You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me – Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Peter Norman
- Knock Me a Kiss – Mike Jackson
- 720 in the Books – Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Leo Watson
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