Ella In Berlin
by Ella Fitzgerald
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Ella Fitzgerald bestography
Ella In Berlin is ranked 5th best out of 68 albums by Ella Fitzgerald on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ella Fitzgerald is Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book which is ranked number 1379 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,249.
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Ella In Berlin track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Ella In Berlin rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 40 Music Albums of 1960 | 16/40 | 3 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Best of Rest 2 | 76/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1960 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 74 Music Albums of 1960 | 4/74 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 1960 | 11/90 | 4 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 30 Music Albums of 1960 | 10/30 | 4 |
| 2026 |  neilgee | Top 61 Music Albums of 1960 | 15/61 | 4 |
| 2026 | Hayden | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 50/100 | 49 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1960 | 75/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | shanelovesyou1111 | Top 51 Music Albums of 1960 | 19/51 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 67 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 253 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/01/2026 06:29 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 07/18/2026 01:34 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 07:13 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,080 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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BestEverAlbums 09/21/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5442): By martintho neilgee 04/21/2021 05:08 in What album are you listening to right now?Ella In Berlin comments
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Any artist should learn from this master on how to improvise if you forget lines. Listen to How High the Moon, but more so Mack the Knife - she never fails to make me smile with this track.
Fitzgerald, from a poor and troubled background, achieved success, despite her tough manner and dishevelled appearance, singing with big bands in the swing era during the 30s, and then as solo vocalist with bepop jazz bands in the 40s when she developed her scat style. In 1956 she began an eight year period of annually releasing an album focusing on songs and composers from the Great American Songbook. Though these albums are highly popular and highly regarded, the live In Berlin is more significant - it is an awesome recording and really shows her at her best. Her ad-libbing and scatting is creative and of a very high order, and her voice is superb, relaxed, confident, and very at ease with the songs she is doing. She is regarded as the "First Lady of Song", and the "Queen of Jazz", and this album really shows why. (Edited)
The woman was a treasure. She had one of the best voices of her generation and was a class act all the way. This record although not one of her greatest is still pretty darn good.
A phenomenal live recording by one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. A personal favorite is "Mack the Knife".
2nd-Impressions 10/15/2020 06:31 | #259318
70/100
Best tracks: Summertime, Mack the Knife
Worst tracks: The Lady Is a Tramp, Too Darn Hot, Lorelei (Edited)
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