Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella in Berlin is a live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

One of Fitzgerald's most acclaimed live performances, at this concert in Berlin, Fitzgerald successfully improvised the lyrics for the song, "Mack the Knife" after forgetting them. In recognition for this, she received the Best Female Vocal Performance (Single) and the Best Vocal Performance, Female (Album) at the 3rd Grammy Awards.

During her Scat solo on "How High the Moon", Fitzgerald quotes the Charlie Parker composition "Ornithology", which is in fact based on the chord changes for "How High the Moon", as a springboard for her own scat improvisation. This recording of "How High the Moon" is considered one of Fitzgerald's best scat solos, if not one of the best in jazz, along with Betty Carter's "Sounds (Movin' On).


Side One:

"Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 2:25
"Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:38
"The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:40
"The Man I Love" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:42
"Summertime" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:02

Side Two:

"Too Darn Hot" (Porter) – 3:17
"Lorelei" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:27
"Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:39
"How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 6:58