[6] During her career she had appeared on the Steve Allen Show and had spent a year working with BB King in the United States as well as touring Europe.

[9] In September 1949 and new on the scene, she provided the vocals on "He's The Greatest Thing There Is" with the Duke Ellington Orchestra that was recorded in New York.

[23][24] It received a positive review in Billboard, with, on "If I Were a Bell", her voice being powerful, yet comfortable and her great choice of material commented on.

Others that attended were her singer sister Billie Lee, her husband Horace Sims, fashion designer Freddie Roach and photographer Irving Overby.

[28] By the later part of the mid-1970s she was appearing at the Club Daiquiri in St. Thomas with the Sam Williams Express, a group she had teamed up with some years before.

[32][33] In mid-March 1981, she appeared at The Cookery at East Eighth Street at University Place in New York, backed by a duo consisting of Robert Banks on piano and Jimmy Lewis on bass.

She was covering material by Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday with songs such as "Mood Indigo", "Sophisticated Lady" and "It Don't Mean a Thing".

[34] Elliott was brought into the Cookery after resident artist, 86 year old Alberta Hunter fell and broke her hip.

She was sought out by the club's owner Barney Josephson, who tried to fill Hunter's absence with some other singers which did not work out.

[35] In May of that year she was singing there from Tuesday to Saturday, backed by Gerald Cook on Piano and with Jimmy Lewis on bass.

[36] On Saturday, December 12, it was announced Miss Lu Elliott and her Jazz Trio were to play a free show at the Citicorp market in New York.