Ella Fitzgerald discography

This is a list of the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald's original albums and subsequent collections from her career.

Albums

Decca

Fitzgerald began recording albums on the Decca label after years of recording singles.

1950
*"Pure Ella" (originally "Ella Sings Gershwin")
*"Souvenir Album"1954
*"Lullabies of Birdland"
*"Songs in a Mellow Mood"1955
*"For Sentimental Reasons"
*"Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax"
*"Sweet and Hot"
*"The First Lady of Song"

Verve

Fitzgerald also recorded singles throughout her Verve years. Her Verve singles are available on the 2003 album, "". Post-career albums are also included here.

1956
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook"
*"Ella and Louis" (with Louis Armstrong)
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook"1957
*"Ella and Louis Again" (with Louis Armstrong)
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook" (with Duke Ellington) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist
*"Ella at the Opera House" (Live)
*"Like Someone in Love"
*"Porgy and Bess" (with Louis Armstrong)1958
*"Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport" (Live) (Reissued with tracks featuring Carmen McRae in 2001)
*"Ella Swings Lightly" – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook" – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
*"" (Live) (Released in 1988)
*"Ella Fitzgerald live at Mister Kelly's" (Live) (Released in 2007)1959
*"Get Happy!"
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers"
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook" – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance 1960
*"" (Live) – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
*"Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas"
*"Hello, Love"
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph" (Available on CD as "The Intimate Ella")1961
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook"
*"Ella in Hollywood" (Live)
*"Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!"
*"Ella Returns to Berlin" (Live) (Released in 1991)1962
*"Rhythm Is My Business"
*"Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson" – Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
*"Ella Swings Gently with Nelson"1963
*"Ella Sings Broadway"
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook"
*"Ella and Basie!" (with Count Basie)
*"These Are the Blues"1964
*"Hello, Dolly!"
*"Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook"
*"Ella at Juan-Les-Pins" (Live)1965
*"Ella at Duke's Place" (with Duke Ellington)
*"Ella in Hamburg" (Live)1966
*"Whisper Not"
*"Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur" (Live) (with Duke Ellington)1969
*"Sunshine of your Love" (Live)

Capitol

1967
*"Brighten the Corner"
*"Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas"1968
*"30 by Ella"
*"Misty Blue"

Reprise

1969
*"Ella"1970
*"Things Ain't What They Used to Be"

Atlantic

1972
*"Ella Loves Cole" (Released on the Pablo label as "Dream Dancing")

Columbia

1973
*"" (Live)

Pablo

1966
*"The Stockholm Concert, 1966" (Live) (with Duke Ellington)1970
*"Ella in Budapest, Hungary" (Live)1971
*"Ella à Nice" (Live)1972
*"Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72" (Live)1973
*"Take Love Easy" (with Joe Pass)1974
*"Fine and Mellow" (Released in 1979) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal
*"Ella in London" (Live)1975
*"Ella and Oscar" (with Oscar Peterson)
*"Montreux '75" (Live)1976
*"Fitzgerald and Pass... Again" (with Joe Pass) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal 1977
*"Montreux '77" (Live)1978
*"Lady Time"
*"Dream Dancing" (First released on the Atlantic label as "Ella Loves Cole")1979
*"Digital III at Montreux" (Live) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
*"A Classy Pair" (with Count Basie)
*"A Perfect Match" (Live) (with Count Basie) – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female 1981
*"Ella Abraça Jobim"1982
*"The Best Is Yet to Come" – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female 1983
*"Speak Love" (with Joe Pass)
*"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (with André Previn)1986
*"Easy Living" (with Joe Pass)1989
*"All That Jazz" – Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female 2001
*"Sophisticated Lady" (Live) (with Joe Pass) (recorded in 1975, 1983)

Notable guest appearances

1955
*"Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues"1957
*"One O'Clock Jump" (with Count Basie and Joe Williams)1983
*"Return to Happiness" (with JATP)1989
*"Back on the Block" (Qwest Records)

Boxed sets and collections

* 1994 "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks"
* 1997 "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve"