Ella Returns to Berlin


Ella Returns to Berlin is a 1961 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, 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
  1. "Introductions and Announcements" – 1:20
  2. "Give Me the Simple Life" – 2:03
  3. "Take the "A" Train" – 3:46
  4. "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" – 2:21
  5. Medley: "Why Was I Born?"/"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"/"People Will Say We're in Love", / – 5:37
  6. "Introduction" – 0:11
  7. "You're Driving Me Crazy" – 3:24
  8. "Rock It for Me" – 3:24
  9. "Witchcraft" – 2:55
  10. "Anything Goes" – 2:34
  11. "Cheek to Cheek" – 3:44
  12. "Misty" – 2:57
  13. "Caravan" – 2:02
  14. "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" – 4:45
  15. "Mack the Knife" – 3:30
  16. "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:22
  17. "'Round Midnight" – 3:31
  18. "Joe Williams' Blues" – 5:27
  19. "Fanfare for Ella" – 0:53
  20. "This Can't Be Love" – 4:30
  21. "Closing Announcements by Norman Granz" – 0:54

Personnel

Recorded February 11, 1961, Berlin, Germany:
Track 20 features; The Oscar Peterson Trio