Ella Returns to Berlin
| Ella Returns to Berlin | ||||
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Recorded | February 11, 1961 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 60:10 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Ella Returns to Berlin is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) live album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a trio led by the pianist Lou Levy, and also featuring the Oscar Peterson trio.
The album's title refers to Fitzgerald's more famous concert in Berlin a year earlier (Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife), which had included her famous rendition of "Mack the Knife", which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance (Single).
Like Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert, this concert was first released thirty years after it was originally recorded, in 1991.
Track listing[edit]
For the 1991 Verve-PolyGram CD Reissue, Verve-PolyGram 837 758-2
- "Introductions and Announcements" – 1:20
- "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 2:03
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:46
- "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 2:21
- Medley: "Why Was I Born?"/"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"/"People Will Say We're in Love" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II), (Kern, Hammerstein)/ (Richard Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 5:37
- "Introduction" – 0:11
- "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) – 3:24
- "Rock It for Me" (Sue Werner, Kay Werner) – 3:24
- "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:55
- "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 2:34
- "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:44
- "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:57
- "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 2:02
- "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" (Sam Coslow) – 4:45
- "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 3:30
- "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:22
- "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:31
- "Joe Williams' Blues" (Ella Fitzgerald) – 5:27
- "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:53
- "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) – 4:30
- "Closing Announcements by Norman Granz" – 0:54
Personnel[edit]
Recorded February 11, 1961, Berlin, Germany:
- Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
- Lou Levy - Piano
- Wilfred Middlebrooks - Bass
- Gus Johnson - Drums
- Herb Ellis - Guitar
Track 20 features; The Oscar Peterson Trio
- Oscar Peterson - Piano
- Ray Brown - Bass
- Ed Thigpen - Drums
References[edit]
- ^ "Ella Returns to Berlin". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
