Ella Fitzgerald was an amazing woman with a great voice and a true talent. The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife is her Grammy-winning 1960 album fleshed out with a few bonus tracks. This is a live album recorded in West Berlin, as it was at the time.
Fitzgerald's song selections are classics, and she gives them masterful performances, complete with great improvisations and impressive scatting. Her renditions of the classics stand up well, and the lyrical improvisation on "Mack the Knife" after she forgets the words is amazing. That selection alone demonstrates that Fitzgerald was not just a pretty face with a passable voice, as so many of today's singers are; rather, she was someone who truly felt the music and was greatly connected to it. Also, she was a creative force with which to reckon.
In short, this record is genius. A must-have for a music collection.
Tracks:
1. (setting up the stage)
2. That Old Black Magic
3. Our Love Is Here to Stay
4. Gone With the Wind
5. Misty
6. (applause and fanfare)
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. (fanfare)
9. The Man I Love
10. Love for Sale
11. Just One of Those Things
12. Summertime
13. Too Darn Hot
14. (applause and fanfare)
15. Lorelei
16. Mack the Knife
17. (fanfare)
18. How High the Moon
19. (closing applause and fanfare)
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