Ella Fitzgerald live recording is getting its first ever release this October.A recording of the concert, which took place at Berlin’s Sportpalast in 1962, were discovered unopened within the private collection of Verve Records founder and Fitzgerald’s manager, Norman Granz.The concert was recorded two years after Fitzgerald’s iconic release, ‘Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife’ and sees Ella performing alongside a trio comprising pianist Paul Smith, bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks and drummer Stan Levey.The new live recording, titled ‘The Lost Berlin Tapes’, will be released on October 2 and will be available to buy on vinyl, CD and digital download.You can hear one of the recordings from the new collection below.The release comes at a time when.
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