Ella Returns to Berlin
1991 live album by Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Returns to Berlin | ||||
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Live album by Ella Fitzgerald | ||||
Released | 1991 | |||
Recorded | February 11, 1961 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 60:10 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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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
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
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
- ^ "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.
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albums
- Ella Sings Gershwin
- Songs in a Mellow Mood
- Lullabies of Birdland
- For Sentimental Reasons
- Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax
- Sweet and Hot
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
- Ella and Louis
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
- Ella and Louis Again
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
- Like Someone in Love
- Ella Swings Lightly
- Porgy and Bess
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
- Get Happy!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
- Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
- Hello, Love
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
- Rhythm Is My Business
- Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
- Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
- Ella Sings Broadway
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book
- Ella and Basie!
- These Are the Blues
- Hello, Dolly!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book
- Ella at Duke's Place
- Whisper Not
- Brighten the Corner
- Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
- 30 by Ella
- Misty Blue
- Ella
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)
- Ella Loves Cole
- Take Love Easy
- Fine and Mellow
- Ella and Oscar
- Fitzgerald and Pass... Again
- Lady Time
- Dream Dancing
- A Classy Pair
- Ella Abraça Jobim
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Speak Love
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Easy Living
- All That Jazz
albums
- At the Opera House
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
- Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert
- Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's
- Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
- Ella in Hollywood
- Ella Returns to Berlin
- Twelve Nights in Hollywood
- Ella at Juan-Les-Pins
- Ella in Hamburg
- Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall
- The Stockholm Concert, 1966
- Ella in Budapest
- Ella à Nice
- Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72
- Ella in London
- Montreux '75
- Montreux '77
- Digital III at Montreux
- A Perfect Match
- Sophisticated Lady
albums
- Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- Back on the Block
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
- Pure Ella
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
- Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1
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albums
- Ride 'Em Cowboy
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Ray Brown (second husband)
- Ray Brown Jr. (son)
- Louis Armstrong collaborations
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
- Marilyn and Ella (2008 play)
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