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ELLA FITZGERALD
New Orleans 1977 [no label, 1CD]
1977 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Live at the Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA; April 15, 1977. Very good FM broadcast (incomplete show).
On the evening of Friday, April 15, (Stevie Wonder) took a break from recording (in Bogalusa, LA) and headed to New Orleans to attend Ella Fitzgerald’s Jazz Fest set at Municipal Auditorium. Fitzgerald was delivering a powerful set and Wonder was feeling it. He joined her onstage, emerging from the crowd as if by magic. The crowd gasped at the sudden appearance of another superstar and, together, the two performed Wonder’s 1973 hit “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.” They received a thunderous standing ovation. - nola.com
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Thanks to nolataper for sharing the tracks at Dime.
nolataper noted:
There were severe thunderstorms in the New Orleans metro area on the morning of April 23 when this performance was first broadcast, so reception conditions (and FM static) were worse than normal for me on this day. Additionally, this was the first day of WWOZ’s “Jazz Festing in Place” broadcast. Interest in the broadcast was apparently much greater than anticipated, and the number of online listeners caused the station’s online stream to crash. As a result, the stream was offline for much of the morning when this performance was first broadcast, to the consternation of thousands of WWOZ listeners across the world. As a courtesy to them, WWOZ decided to re-broadcast this performance near the end of the day. WWOZ’s FM signal, however, never went off the air, so that’s why there are two sources available from the same day.
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Track 01. Intro 0:37
Track 02. Too Close For Comfort 3:42
Track 03. I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues 4:41
Track 04. Ordinary Fool 3:23
Track 05. (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have To Swing It 4:20
Track 06. A-Tisket, A-Tasket (instrumental) 2:21
Track 07. Intro of Stevie Wonder 1:01
Track 08. Your Are The Sunshine Of My Life 4:23
25 mins
Performers:
Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
Tommy Flanagan Trio:
Tommy Flannagan - piano
Keter Betts - upright bass
Bobby Durham - drums
Stevie Wonder - vocals
Roy Eldridge - trumpet **
Al Belletto - saxophone **
** these 2 players are listed elsewhere as having performed with Ella, but they are not heard anywhere during these tunes… they may have indeed guested at other parts of the show during this night, but not during this portion
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