Ella Fitzgerald: Live In East Berlin 1967 - 2x LP 180g Vinyl, Limited to 3000, Numbered, Remastered "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: this concert is not like the others, she hasn't had enough time to rehearse, what will the audience think, what do they expect of her, will she be able to seduce them? No one can calm her down, and she fidgets with her eternal white handkerchief. These thoughts run through her mind as her manager, Norman Granz, enters the stage and introduces the musicians: Sam Woodyard on drums, Bob Cranshow on double bass, Jimmy Jones on piano, then settles for a simple "I think you all know Ella". She enters, murmurs a timid "danke schön" and, miraculously, the audience greets her with a thunderous cheer. In less than a breath, the strained smile that marked her lips is transformed into happy laughter. The "First Lady of Jazz" emerges from her torpor. She was about to deliver one of her most memorable concerts to the East Berlin public. The Lost Recordings managed to obtain the original analog tapes of this unique performance, one in stereo and one in mono. Neither version was complete. The concert had to be reconstructed, and the version of each track that most perfectly revealed the magic of the moment had to be chosen prior to the restoration work. 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... It's now one o'clock in the morning. The concert should be over. But the ovation is immense. The audience doesn't want to let Ella go. She returns to give an encore of her childhood song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and a climax in the form of "Hello, Dolly! 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! Tracklist: A1 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 3:30A2 Don’t Be That Way 3:51A3 You've Changed 4:52A4 Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 4:10A5 These Boots Are Made For Walking 4:04B1 Here’s That Rainy Day 4:14B2 Summertime 3:35B3 It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 5:02B4 Só Danço Samba (Jazz Samba) 8:21C1 Mack The Knife 4:51C2 Midnight Sun 4:25C3 Goin' Out Of My Head 3:13C4 Oh, Lady Be Good 4:02C5 Misty 4:01D1 'S Wonderful 2:32D2 Saint-Louis Blues 6:17D3 How High The Moon 8:15D4 A-Tisket, A-Tasket 2:13D5 Hello, Dolly! 2:14 Ella Fitzgerald, VocalsJimmy Jones, PianoBob Cranshaw BassSam Woodyard, Drums Recording information: Title: Live In East Berlin 1967 Artist: Ella Fitzgerald Genre: Jazz Media: 2x 180g LP Vinyl Stereo 33rpm, Limited to 3000, Numbered, Remastered, . . Recorded at Fredrichstadt-Palast, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, on 25.I.1967. Pressed by Simon Garcia, Marciac. Remastered from the original analog tapes. Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray. 1st numbered edition, 3000 copies Label: The Lost Recordings Cat#: TLR-2304051V Released: 1.12.2024 in France EAN: 3770020964091 Discogs rel.#: 29308795 Ella Fitzgerald: Live In East Berlin 1967 - 2x LP 180g Vinyl, Limited to 3000, Numbered, Remastered

"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: this concert is not like the others, she hasn't had enough time to rehearse, what will the audience think, what do they expect of her, will she be able to seduce them? No one can calm her down, and she fidgets with her eternal white handkerchief. These thoughts run through her mind as her manager, Norman Granz, enters the stage and introduces the musicians: Sam Woodyard on drums, Bob Cranshow on double bass, Jimmy Jones on piano, then settles for a simple "I think you all know Ella". She enters, murmurs a timid "danke schön" and, miraculously, the audience greets her with a thunderous cheer. In less than a breath, the strained smile that marked her lips is transformed into happy laughter. The "First Lady of Jazz" emerges from her torpor. She was about to deliver one of her most memorable concerts to the East Berlin public.

The Lost Recordings managed to obtain the original analog tapes of this unique performance, one in stereo and one in mono. Neither version was complete. The concert had to be reconstructed, and the version of each track that most perfectly revealed the magic of the moment had to be chosen prior to the restoration work.

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...

It's now one o'clock in the morning. The concert should be over. But the ovation is immense. The audience doesn't want to let Ella go. She returns to give an encore of her childhood song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and a climax in the form of "Hello, Dolly! 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!

Tracklist:

A1 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 3:30
A2 Don’t Be That Way 3:51
A3 You've Changed 4:52
A4 Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 4:10
A5 These Boots Are Made For Walking 4:04
B1 Here’s That Rainy Day 4:14
B2 Summertime 3:35
B3 It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 5:02
B4 Só Danço Samba (Jazz Samba) 8:21
C1 Mack The Knife 4:51
C2 Midnight Sun 4:25
C3 Goin' Out Of My Head 3:13
C4 Oh, Lady Be Good 4:02
C5 Misty 4:01
D1 'S Wonderful 2:32
D2 Saint-Louis Blues 6:17
D3 How High The Moon 8:15
D4 A-Tisket, A-Tasket 2:13
D5 Hello, Dolly! 2:14

Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals
Jimmy Jones, Piano
Bob Cranshaw Bass
Sam Woodyard, Drums

Recording information:

Title: Live In East Berlin 1967
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Genre: Jazz
Media: 2x 180g LP Vinyl Stereo 33rpm, Limited to 3000, Numbered, Remastered, . . Recorded at Fredrichstadt-Palast, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, on 25.I.1967. Pressed by Simon Garcia, Marciac. Remastered from the original analog tapes. Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray. 1st numbered edition, 3000 copies
Label: The Lost Recordings
Cat#: TLR-2304051V
Released: 1.12.2024 in France
EAN: 3770020964091
Discogs rel.#: 29308795

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