Ella and Basie! is a 1963 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, with arrangements by Quincy Jones. It was later reissued with slightly different cover art as On the Sunny Side of the Street.

Overview

Fitzgerald and the Basie band had recorded together once before, on the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump. This album is revered alongside Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961), Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and Ella in Hollywood (1961) as one of Ella's greatest recordings. The album was rated the 175th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.

Track listing

For the 1963 Verve LP album, Verve V6-4061 Side One: Side Two: Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1997 Verve CD Reissue, Verve 539 059-2

Personnel