Biography
Ella Fitzgerald And Her Savoy Eight
Effective period / Period of releases: 1936 - 2004
Members: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Chick Webb, Bobby Johnson, Hilton Jefferson, Sandy Williams, Taft Jordan, Tommy Fulford, Beverly Peer, Teddy McRae, Pete Clark (2), John Trueheart
American Jazz ensemble on stage with Ella Fitzgerald, active between 1936 and 1939, when they dissolved. It was a marketing built orchestra, which recruited from members of Chick Webb And His Orchestra.