Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle.
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.[6]
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.[7]
^"Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
^Yanow, Scott. "Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
^Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^Watson, Jimmy (February 9, 1963). "Ella Fitzgerald, Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 100. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 14, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
^Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^David Morrell (January 24, 2013). Nelson Riddle: The Man Behind the Music. David Morrell. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-937760-25-0.
^Johnson Publishing Company (June 6, 1963). "Jet". Jet. Johnson Publishing Company: 62–. ISSN 0021-5996.
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