Ella Fitzgerald



First NameElla
Last NameFitzgerald
Full Name at BirthElla Jane Fitzgerald
Other NamesLady Ella
First Lady of Song
Age79 (age at death)
Date of BirthApril 25, 1917
BirthplaceNewport News, VA
Date of DeathJune 15, 1996
Location of DeathBeverly Hills, CA
Cause of Deathdiabetes complications
BuildLarge
Hair ColorBrown - Dark
Star SignTaurus
EthnicityBlack
NationalityAmerican
Occupation CategoryPersonality
Claim to Famethe First Lady of Jazz
Music GenreVocal
Music StyleJazz, Bop, Swing, Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz, Popular Music Entry
Music MoodElegant, Exuberant, Springlike, Joyous, Playful, Soothing, Carefree, Intimate, Amiable/Good-Natured, Cheerful, Refined/Mannered, Rousing, Sweet, Romantic, Energetic, Bright, Sophisticated, Stylish, Gentle, Boisterous
InstrumentVocals, Classical Music Entry
Official Websiteellafitzgerald.com
Favorite FoodsChicken
Favorite ColorsBlack, Brown
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.


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Discography

2005
Love Songs

1999
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book

1996
Portrait Of Ella Fitzgerald

1989
Ella At Juan-Les-Pins

1989
Ella / Things Ain't What They Used To Be (And You Better Believe It)

1989
I've Got You Under My Skin

1989
For The Love Of Ella

1989
Montreux '77

1988
Ella In Rome - The Birthday Concert

1984
Live And Rare

1984
The Stockholm Concert 1966

1984
The Cole Porter Songbook Volume One

1983
Speak Love

1983
Ella À Nice

1982
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas

1982
The Duke Ellington Songbook, Volume Two: The Small Group Sessions

1982
Lady Be Good Vol/2

1981
Ella Abraça Jobim - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Antonio Carlos Jobim Song Book

1980
Ella Fitzgerald Und Billie Holiday

1980
A Perfect Match

1979
Fine And Mellow, Ella Fitzgerald Jams

1979
I Grandi Del Jazz

1978
The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook

1978
Sings Christmas

1978
Dream Dancing

1978
Lady Time

1976
Ella And Oscar

1976
The Cole Porter Songbook

1976
Fitzgerald & Pass...Again

1975
Ella Fitzgerald & The Chick Webb Orchestra

1975
Ella Fitzgerald At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975

1975
Ella Fitzgerald At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975

1974
Sings Gershwin

1974
Ella In London

1973
Ella Fitzgerald

1973
History Of Ella Fitzgerald

1973
Newport Jazz Festival Live At Carnegie Hall, July 5, 1973

1972
Ella Loves Cole

1970
Verve Jazz No. 7

1970
Things Ain't What They Used To Be (And You Better Believe It)

1969
Ella Fitzgerald

1969
Ella

1968
Ella Live

1968
Misty Blue

1968
Walkin' In The Sunshine

1968
Misty Blue

1968
Sunshine Of Your Love

1967
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas

1967
Ella & Louis

1967
Brighten The Corner

1967
Ella & Duke At The Côte D'Azur

1967
Ella In Concert

1966
Jazz- Portrait

1966
Songs In A Mellow Mood

1966
Whisper Not

1965
Ella Fitzgerald

1965
Ella At Duke's Place

1965
Ella In Hamburg

1965
Ella In Hamburg

1964
These Are The Blues

1964
Hello Dolly

1963
Ella And Basie!

1963
Ella Sings Gershwin

1963
Ella Sings Broadway

1963
These Are The Blues

1963
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book

1962
Ella Fitzgerald Swings Brightly With Nelson

1961
Ella In Hollywood

1961
Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book

1961
Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson

1961
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

1960
Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin

1960
Hello Love

1960
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man Write My Epitaph

1960
Ella Sings Gershwin

1960
Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin

1959
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Gershwin Song Book Vol. 1

1959
Get Happy

1959
Ella Sings Gershwin Vol. II

1959
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Gershwin Song Book Volume II

1959
Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book Volume 1

1959
Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book Vol. 5

1959
Sings Sweet Songs For Swingers

1959
Ella Fitzgerald Sings "Embraceable You" And Other George Gershwin Favourites

1959
Hello Love

1958
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book, Vol. 1

1958
Ella Swings Lightly

1958
Ella Fitzgerald At The Opera House

1958
Cheek To Cheek - Ella Fitzgerald Sings Irving Berlin

1958
At Newport

1958
Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook

1957
Like Someone In Love

1957
One O'Clock Jump

1957
Porgy & Bess

1957
The Duke - Ella's Way

1956
Sweet And Hot

1956
Ella And Louis

1956
Sings The Rodgers And Hart Song Book

1956
Sings The Cole Porter Songbook

1955
Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Books

1955
Lullabies Of Birdland

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Rodgers & Hart

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A Classy Pair

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Ella And Her Fellas

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Ella Fitzgerald With Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra And Chorus

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Here Is Ella Fitzgerald At Her Rare Of All Rarest Performances Vol. 1

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For Sentimental Reasons...

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Ella Fitzergald's Tribute To Cole Porter

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Sings Cole Porter

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I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 33

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Ella At Duke's Place

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Ella Sings, Chick Swings

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume One

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Compact Jazz

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book Vol. 2

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Verve's Choice: The Best Of Ella Fitzgerald

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume Five

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume Four

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume Three

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Ella And Louis

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Ella Swings Gently With Nelson

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Ella Swings Lightly

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Jazz Gala - Live At The Deutschlandhalle In Berlin

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Hello Dolly

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Ella Swings Lightly

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The Special Magic Of Ella & Louis Vol 2

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On The Sunny Side Of The Street

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume Four

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Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book - Volume Three

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Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book

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Ella At Juan-Les-Pins

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The Best Of

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On The Sunny Side Of The Street

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Everytime We Say Goodbye & Other Cole Porter Favourites

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Ella Fitzgerald's Big Sixteen

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The Special Magic Of Ella & Louis

Filmography

Selected Ella Fitzgerald film and TV show credits:


Acting Credits

1978
The White Shadow
Maxine Jefferies

1966
All My Life
Vocalist

1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Flora

1958
St. Louis Blues
Singer

1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
Maggie Jackson

1942
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Ruby

Composer Credits

1996
ARS medica
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1995
Héroe se hace a patadas, Un
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Soundtrack Credits

2010
Real-Life Mallory
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2009
The Answer Man
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2009
A Girls Night Out
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2009
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me
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2008
Two Lovers
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2008
Recipes for Disaster
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2008
The Return of the War Room
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2008
Taylor
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2007
Teeth
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2007
Midnight Son
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2007
Mad Men
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2007
Skins
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2006
The Break-Up
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2006
The Holiday
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2006
Dancing on Ice
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2006
Protagonistas del recuerdo
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2005
Bewitched
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2005
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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2005
Dancing with the Stars
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2005
Ghost Whisperer
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2005
So You Think You Can Dance
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2004
Christmas with the Kranks
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2004
Kinsey
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2004
The Aviator
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2004
The Uncertain Guest
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2004
Snow
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2003
Elf
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2003
It Runs in the Family
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2003
The In-Laws
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2003
Chocolate com Pimenta
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2003
Miss Match
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2003
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show
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2002
Naked
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2002
Sinatra: The Classic Duets
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2001
An American Rhapsody
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2001
C'est la vie
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2001
Don't Say a Word
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2001
Focus
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2001
Kissing Jessica Stein
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2001
Amy's Orgasm
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2000
Stardom
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2000
Gilmore Girls
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1999
Any Given Sunday
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1999
At First Sight
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1999
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
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1999
The Sopranos
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1998
Sphere
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1998
Election Night
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1998
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
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1997
Lolita
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1997
Love! Valour! Compassion!
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1997
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
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1996
My Fellow Americans
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1996
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
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1996
One Fine Day
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1996
The English Patient
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1996
7th Heaven
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1995
Forget Paris
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1995
French Kiss
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1995
Miami Rhapsody
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1995
The Grass Harp
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1995
While You Were Sleeping
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1993
Grumpy Old Men
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1993
Aqui na Terra
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1993
The War Room
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1992
Malcolm X
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1991
Little Man Tate
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1991
Wild Blade
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1991
Damned in the U.S.A.
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1989
Driving Miss Daisy
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1989
When Harry Met Sally...
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1988
Distant Voices, Still Lives
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1988
Torch Song Trilogy
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1986
The Singing Detective
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1985
Desert Hearts
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1985
Het bittere kruid
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1983
American Masters
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1982
Melanie
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1981
The 33rd Annual Emmy Awards
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1980
Raging Bull
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1968
A Place for Lovers
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1966
All My Life
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1964
Coloquio en Segovia
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1963
The Danny Kaye Show
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
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1959
But Not for Me
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1958
The Tender Game
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1957
The Frank Sinatra Show
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1955
Pete Kelly's Blues
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1948
Unusual Occupations
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1944
Two Girls and a Sailor
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1942
Ride 'Em Cowboy
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1940
The Grapes of Wrath
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1939
Broadway Serenade
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1939
Honolulu
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1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
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1979 Kennedy Center Honorees
Aaron Copland
Ella Fitzgerald
Henry Fonda
Martha Graham
Tennessee Williams
Ella Fitzgerald
A Classy Pair
All That Jazz
Brighten The Corner (1967)
Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie (1961)
Dream Dancing (1978)
Easy Living (1986)
Ella (1969)
Ella & Louis (1967)
Ella & Louis Again (2011)
Ella Abraca Jobim
Ella And Basie! (1963)
Ella And Oscar (1976)
Ella At Duke's Place
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs From Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book (1999)
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (1967)
Ella Loves Cole (1972)
Ella Sings Broadway (1963)
Ella Sings Gershwin (1963)
Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson (1961)
Ella Swings Gently With Nelson
Ella Swings Lightly (1958)
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas (1982)
Fitzgerald and Pass...Again (1976)
For Sentimental Reasons...
Get Happy (1959)
Gold (2003)
Hello Love (1959)
Hello, Dolly! (1964)
Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1
Lady Time (1978)
Like Someone in Love (1957)
Lullabies Of Birdland (1955)
Misty Blue (1968)
Porgy & Bess (1957)
Pure Ella (1997)
Rhythm Is My Business (1999)
Songs in a Mellow Mood (1966)
Speak Love (1983)
Sweet And Hot (1956)
Take Love Easy
The Best Is Yet To Come (1996)
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
These Are The Blues (1963)
Whisper Not (1966)