On May 8, 1965, the BBC broadcast a taped TV concert that Ella Fitzgerald had recorded earlier that year in front of a studio audience. She was joined on songs by her trio—Tommy Flanagan on piano, Keter Betts on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums. There were no musician solos, other than during the intro and outro. It's all Ella. She also sang songs backed by the Johnnie Spence Orchestra, a roaring British big band.
The arrangements? They were by Buddy Bregman, Max Harris, Oliver Nelson, Marty Paich, Nelson Riddle and Alan Roper.
Here's over an hour of Ella Fitzgerald in her prime at the BBC in 1965...
