- jazz
- 16 tracks
- Verve
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.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 ★
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Tracks
- A1Little White Lies
- A2You Hit the Spot
- A3What’s Your Story, Morning Glory?
- A4Just You, Just Me
- A5As Long as I Live
- A6Teardrops From My Eyes
- A7Gotta Be This or That
- A8Moonlight on the Ganges
- B1My Kinda Love
- B2Blues in the Night
- B3If I Were a Bell
- B4You’re an Old Smoothie
- B5Little Jazz
- B6You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
- B7Knock Me a Kiss
- B8720 in the Books
About the album
- Artist
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Label
- Verve
- Released
- 1959
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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