Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Falkoner Theatre Copenhagen 6th February 1966 Ella Fitzgerald

Wondrously uninhibited, and liberated from the added pressure of either a studio or a planned live recording, there is true magic, sparkling energy, and no lowering of intensity in this never-before-released unearthed gem from the Queen of Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald. This is a completely unreleased recording seen here for the very first time.

The night before Ella Fitzgerald walked into Konserthuset in Stockholm and recorded what became The Stockholm Concert, 1966, the Pablo Records live album now considered among the essential documents of her late career, she played two concerts at Falkoner Theatre in Copenhagen. Ella is backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Jimmy Jones Trio. Like many other Black American jazz musicians of her era, Denmark felt like home to Ella. It was a country where they found a degree of respect that the United States too often denied them.

Mastered by Caspar Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Productions, Live at Falkoner Theatre is available on CD in an LP-replica style sleeve with OBI strip and 180g vinyl LP with OBI strip.