Ella Returns to Berlin

Infobox Album | Name = Ella Returns to Berlin
Type = Live album
Artist = Ella Fitzgerald

| Released = 1961
Recorded = February 11, 1961
Genre = Jazz
Length = 60:10
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lef3zfj7eh5k link] | Last album = "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!"
(1961)
This album = " Ella Returns to Berlin "
(1961)
Next album = "Rhythm Is My Business"
(1962) |

"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 (""), which had included her famous rendition of Mack the Knife, which earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance (Single).

Like "", this concert was first released thirty years after it was originally recorded, in 1991.

Track listing

#"Introductions and Announcements" – 1:20
#"Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom) – 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" (Jimmy 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
* The Oscar Peterson Trio (Track 20)
* Oscar Peterson - Piano
* Ray Brown - Bass
* Ed Thigpen - Drums