ELLA FITZGERALD
ELLA FITZGERALD - LIVE IN EAST BERLIN 1967 - DOUBLE VINYL
DOUBLE VINYL
ELLA FITZGERALD
LIVE IN EAST BERLIN 1967
68,00€39,00€
RECORD 1
- On the Sunny Side of the Street*
- Don't Be That Way
- You've Changed
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
- These Boots Are Made for Walking
- Here's That Rainy Day
- Summertime
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- Só Danço Samba (Jazz Samba)
RECORD 2
- Midnight Sun
- Goin' Out of My Head*
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Misty
- 'S Wonderful
- St. Louis Blues
- How High the Moon
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket*
- Hello, Dolly!*
3000 Copies
“Ella Fitzgerald – As in the good old days at the Savoy!”
It all began with a coincidence and complicity between Ronald Trisch, the head of the East German music agency, and Horst Lippmann, the West Berlin representative of major American artists. In January 1967, Ella Fitzgerald toured Europe with Duke Ellington and his orchestra. After a concert in West Berlin, January 25 was a day off. They jumped at the chance to organize a somewhat adventurous "detour" for Ella to East Berlin. At 11 p.m. on Wednesday evening, 3,000 people flocked to the Friedrichstadt Palace. This appearance in East Berlin would be the only one of her career. No big orchestra behind her, but the 3 exceptional musicians of the Jimmy Jones Trio to accompany her.
This was a perilous affair. Karlheinz Drechsel, one of the organizers, and father of Ulf Drechsel, our correspondent in Germany, describes in his Memoirs, an excessively nervous Ella when, after crossing Check Point Charlie, she finds herself backstage. Unusual anxieties haunt her thoughts
For almost an hour and a half, she treated the audience to some twenty tracks from the other side of the wall, alternating timeless standards with the hits of the moment, from the Beatles to Nancy Sinatra...
Late into the night, before climbing back into her car, heading for West Berlin, exhausted but drunk with happiness, she confessed to Karlheinz Drechsel: "It was like the good old days at the Savoy! ".
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals
Jimmy Jones, Piano
Bob Cranshaw Bass
Sam Woodyard, Drums
Ref.: TLR-2304050V
Recorded at Fredrichstadt-Palast, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, on 25.1.1967
STEREO ℗ 1967 DRA, *MONO ℗ 1967 Private Collection
Remastered by ℗ & © 2023 THE LOST RECORDINGS
Pressed by Simon Garcia, Marciac
Remastered from the original analog tapes
33 rpm Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray
180g 2-vinyl album
1st numbered edition, 3000 copies
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