Track listing
For Volume 1 & 2 issued on Verve 2CD; Verve B0014022-2
Disc One:
- Introduction – 0:48
- "Lover Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 1:55
- "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 2:39
- "Little White Lies" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:01
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:49
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:53
- "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 3:47
- "I Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams) – 2:28
- "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:25
- "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) – 3:15
- "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 6:52
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:23
- "But Not for Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:10
- "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 3:03
- "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene) – 2:00
- "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz) – 3:15
- "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:37
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:45
- "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 4:10
Disc Two:
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 02:29
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, I. Gershwin) – 3:31
- "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 1:53
- "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Tizol) – 2:05
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:18
- "Lorelei" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:16
- "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 1:54
- "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:04
- "Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 2:31
- "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 3:45
- "It's De-Lovely" (Porter) – 2:15
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:41
- "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) – 3:33
- "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 2:08
- Ella Introduces the Band – 0:39
- "Imagination" (Johnny Burke (lyricist), Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:41
- "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:08
- "Joe Williams' Blues" (Fitzgerald) – 7:21
For Volume 3 & 4 issued on Verve 2CD; Verve B0014394-2
Disc Three:
- "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Loesser) – 1:39
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:34
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer) – 3:36
- "Anything Goes" (Porter) – 02:26
- "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Steve Allen) – 2:25
- "Candy" (Mack David, Joan Whitney Kramer, Alex Kramer) – 5:07
- "Little Girl Blue" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:49
- "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Donaldson) – 3:30
- "It's All Right with Me" (Porter) – 2:33
- "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" (Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 2:49
- "'S Wonderful" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:28
- "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 6:20
- "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) – 2:17
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:33
- "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:53
- "Exactly Like You" (Fields, McHugh) – 4:30
- "Rock It for Me" (Kay Werner, Sue Werner) – 3:35
- "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb) – 6:49
- "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 4:11
- "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 6:05
Disc Four: Recorded on June 29–30, 1962
- "All of Me" (Harold Marks, Seymour Simons) – 3:15
- "Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager, Chas Bates, Bob Bigelow, Jack Yellen) – 2:38
- "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 2:46
- "My Kind of Boy" (Leslie Bricusse) – 2:42
- "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:56
- "C'est Magnifique" (Porter) – 3:28
- "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:49
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 2:10
- "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 2:23
- "Good Morning Heartache" (Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 4:24
- "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" (Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Billy Rose) – 3:23
- "Hallelujah I Love Him So" (Ray Charles) – 2:19
- "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) – 3:25
- "Ol' Man Mose" (Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph) – 3:13
- "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, de Paul) – 3:06
- Medley: "Too Darn Hot"/"Ella's Twist" (Porter)/(Fitzgerald) – 1:10
- "Too Darn Hot" – 2:41
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Hart, Rodgers) – 5:19
- "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" (Hughie Cannon) – 3:41
- "Bill Bailey Reprise" – 3:32