This is a 2012 reissue vinyl LP pressing of Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson by Ella Fitzgerald-Riddle. The American jazz singer originally released her studio album in 1962, via Verve Records. Produced by Norman Granz, this album is one of a pair that Fitzgerald and Riddle recorded and released in 1962, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. Fitzgerald and Riddle had last worked together on her 1959 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook.

Fitzgerald’s performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, this was Fitzgerald’s seventh Grammy.

Label: Wax Time

Release Year: 2012

Track List:

1. When Your Lover Has Gone
2. Don’t Be That Way
3. Love Me Or Leave Me
4. I Hear Music
5. What Am I Here For
6. I’m Gonna Go Fishing
7. I Want Dance
8. I Only Have Eyes For You
9. The Gentleman Is A Dope
10. Mean To Me
11. Alone Together
12. Pick Yourself Up
13. Darn That Dream