# Ella Fitzgerald albums discography

Between 1935 and 1955, American singer Ella Fitzgerald was signed to Decca Records. Her early recordings as a featured vocalist were frequently uncredited. Her first credited single was 78 RPM recording "I'll Chase the Blues Away" with the Chick Webb Orchestra. Fitzgerald continued recording with Webb until his death in 1939, after which the group was renamed Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra. With the introduction of 10" and 12" Long-Playing records in the late 1940s, Decca released several original albums of Fitzgerald's music and reissued many of her previous single-only releases. From 1935 to the late 1940s Decca issued Ella Fitzgerald's recordings on 78rpm singles and album collections, in book form, of four singles that included eight tracks. These recordings have been re-issued on a series of 15 compact disc by the French record label Classics Records between 1992 and 2008.
In 1956 Ella Fitzgerald signed with Verve Records, the Norman Granz record label. Fitzgerald recorded with Verve until the mid-1960s. Included in this era were a series of eight Song Book albums, with interpretations of the greater part of the Great American Songbook, with songs from the pens of Cole Porter (1956), Rodgers & Hart (1956), Duke Ellington (1957), Irving Berlin (1958), George and Ira Gershwin (1959), Harold Arlen (1961), Jerome Kern (1963) and Johnny Mercer (1964). Ella Fitzgerald released many stand alone singles throughout her Verve years. These were re-issued in 2003 on the 2-CD set, Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fitzgerald release albums on several major record labels, including three albums on Capitol Records and two on the Reprise Records label. In 1972 Norman Granz formed Pablo Records, the label continued to release Ella Fitzgerald's albums up until her last recorded album All That Jazz in 1989.
In recent years the Ella Fitzgerald back catalogue has continued to grow, this includes complete albums of previously unreleased live material and alternative recordings from her studio sessions.

## Studio albums
### 1950s

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, and other relevant details :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | UK |
| Ella Sings Gershwin | Released: 1950 Label: Decca Formats: LP | — | — | 13 |
| Songs in a Mellow Mood | Released: 1954 Label: Decca Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (with Peggy Lee) | Released: 1955 Label: Decca Formats: LP | 7 | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book | Released: May 15, 1956 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Ella and Louis (with Louis Armstrong) | Released: October 1956 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | 3 | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book | Released: 1956 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Ella and Louis Again (with Louis Armstrong) | Released: October 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | 12 | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Like Someone in Love | Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| One O'Clock Jump (with Count Basie and Joe Williams) | Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Porgy and Bess | Released: 1957 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Ella Swings Lightly | Released: 1958 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book | Released: 1958 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | 5 |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers | Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Get Happy! | Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers | Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| Hello, Love | Released: 1959 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released. |||||

### 1960s

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, and other relevant details :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | BEL | NLD | NOR | SWE | UK |
| Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas | Released: 1960 Label: Verve Formats: LP | 61 | 5 | 55 | 37 | 33 | 33 | 44 |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from the Soundtrack of "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" | Released: 1960 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book | Released: 1961 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! | Released: 1961 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rhythm Is My Business | Released: 1962 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson | Released: 1962 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Swings Gently with Nelson | Released: 1962 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Sings Broadway | Released: 1963 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book | Released: 1963 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella and Basie! (with Count Basie) | Released: 1963 Label: Verve Formats: LP | 69 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| These Are the Blues | Released: 1963 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hello, Dolly! | Released: July 1964 Label: Verve Formats: LP | 146 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book | Released: 1964 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella at Duke's Place (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1965 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whisper Not | Released: 1966 Label: Verve Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brighten the Corner | Released: August 1967 Label: Capitol Formats: LP | 172 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas | Released: November 1967 Label: Capitol Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 30 by Ella | Released: 1968 Label: Capitol Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Misty Blue | Released: 1968 Label: Capitol Formats: LP | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ella | Released: 1969 Label: Reprise Formats: LP | 196 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released. |||||||||

### 1970s

List of studio albums, showing all relevant details :
| Title | Album details |
| Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) | Released: 1970 Label: Reprise Formats: LP |
| Ella Loves Cole | Released: 1972 Label: Atlantic Formats: LP |
| Take Love Easy (with Joe Pass) | Released: 1973 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Ella and Oscar (with Oscar Peterson) | Released: 1975 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (with Joe Pass) | Released: 1976 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Lady Time | Released: 1978 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Fine and Mellow | Released: 1979 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| A Classy Pair (with Count Basie) | Released: 1979 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |

### 1980s

List of studio albums, showing all relevant details :
| Title | Album details |
| Ella Abraça Jobim | Released: 1981 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| The Best Is Yet to Come | Released: 1982 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Speak Love (with Joe Pass) | Released: 1983 Label: Pablo Formats: LP |
| Nice Work If You Can Get It (with André Previn | Released: 1983 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, cassette |
| Easy Living (with Joe Pass) | Released: 1986 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, CD, cassette |
| All That Jazz | Released: 1990 Label: Pablo Formats: LP, CD, cassette |

## Live albums

The albums are sorted by release date.
| Title | Album Details | Notes |
| Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl | Released: 1958 Label: Verve | |
| Ella Fitzgerald And Billie Holiday At Newport | Released: 1958 Label: Verve | |
| Ella At The Opera House | Released: 1958 Label: Verve | |
| Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife | Released: 1960 Label: Verve | Later re-issued as The Complete Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife with additional tracks. |
| Ella In Hollywood | Released: 1961 Label: Verve | |
| Ella At Juan-Les-Pins | Released: 1964 Label: Verve | |
| Ella In Hamburg | Released: 1965 Label: Verve | |
| Duke & Ella In Concerto (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1966 Label: Verve | |
| Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1966 Label: Verve | |
| Sunshine Of Your Love | Released: 1968 Label: MPS | |
| J.A.T.P. In Tokyo: Live At The Nichigeki Theatre 1953 | Recorded: 1953 Released: 1972 Label: Verve | |
| Jazz At Santa Monica Civic '72 | Recorded: 1972 Released: 1972 Label: Pablo | |
| Newport Jazz Festival: Live At Carnegie Hall, July 5, 1973 | Released: 1973 Label: Columbia | |
| Ella In London | Recorded: 1974 Released: 1974 Label: Pablo | |
| Ella Fitzgerald And Her Orchestra Live From The Roseland Ballroom, 1940 | Released: 1974 Label: Sunbeam | |
| Ella Fitzgerald At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 | Released: 1975 Label: Pablo | |
| Montreux '77 (with the Tommy Flanagan Trio) | Recorded: 1977 Released: 1977 Label: Pablo | |
| Digital III At Montreux | Released: 1979 Label: Pablo | |
| A Perfect Match (with Count Basie) | Released: 1979 Label: Pablo | |
| Ella À Nice | Released: 1982 Label: Pablo | |
| Return To Happiness: Jazz At The Philharmonic, Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo, 1983 | Recorded: 1983 Released: 1983 Label: Pablo | |
| The Stockholm Concert, 1966 (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1984 Label: Pablo | |
| Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert | Recorded: 1958 Released: 1988 Label: Verve | |
| The Greatest Jazz Concert In The World (with Duke Ellington) | Released: 1990 Label: Pablo | |
| Ella Returns To Berlin | Released: 1991 Label: Verve | |
| The Complete Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife | Released: 1993 Label: Verve | Re-issue of the album Ella In Berlin: Mack The Knife with additional tracks. |
| Ella Fitzgerald With The Tommy Flanagan Trio | Released: 1996 Label: LaserLight | |
| Live From The Cave Supper Club: Vancouver BC, Canada, 19 May 1968 | Recorded: 1968 Released: 1999 Label: Jazz Band Records | |
| Ella Fitzgerald In Budapest | Released: 1999 Label: Pablo | |
| Sophisticated Lady (with Joe Pass) | Released: 2001 Label: Pablo | |
| Live At Mister Kelly's | Released: 2007 Label: Verve | |
| Twelve Nights In Hollywood | Released: 2009 Label: Verve | |
| Ella In Japan: 'S Wonderful | Released: 2011 Label: Verve | |
| Live in Paris, Vol. 1 (May 8 – October 7, 1957) | Released: 2012 Label: Fremeaux | Previously unreleased live recordings, released over 3 volumes, from a series of concerts recorded between 1957 and 1962 at the Paris Olympia. |
| Live in Paris, Vol. 2 (May 1, 1958; February 23 & 29, 1960) | Released: 2012 Label: Fremeaux | |
| Live in Paris, Vol. 3 (February 28 & March 11, 1961; March 16, 1962) | Released: 2013 Label: Fremeaux | |
| Ella At Zardi's | Released: 2017 Label: Verve | Previously unreleased live concert recording from Zardi's Jazzland on Hollywood Boulevard, L.A., February 2, 1956. |
| Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes | Released: 2020 Label: Verve | Previously unreleased live concert recording from Berlin, Germany, 1962. |
| Live in East Berlin 1967 | Released: 2023 Label: The Lost Recordings | Previously unreleased live concert recording from Friedrichstadt-Palast, 1967 |

## Notable guest appearances

The albums are sorted by release date.
* 1956 – Metronome All-Stars 1956
* 1960 – The Drum Battle: Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at J.A.T.P.
* 1989 – Back on the Block
* 1992 – Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack THE SETTING SUN (Compact Disc RCA VICTOR VICP 8084, Japan. Ella Fitzgerald sings "The Setting Sun". It was her last professional recording, recorded at Warner Bros. Studios in January 1992 with arrangements by Billy May. Source:https://www.discogs.com/it/Various-The-Setting-Sun-Rakuy%C3%B4-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/8310263)
* 2002 – Classic Duets (Three duets with Frank Sinatra, originally recorded in 1957 on the ABC TV series The Frank Sinatra Show)

## Boxed sets and collections

* 1994 – The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
* 1995 – Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings
* 1997 – The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
* 1998 – Swingsation: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb
* 1998 – Ella 100
* 2014 – The Complete Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions 1934-1941
* 2017 – Ella Fitzgerald: 100 Songs for a Centennial