I spent yesterday evening trying to pin down the exact date when the following video was recorded for Italian television. The best I could do is that it was recorded sometime between February and April 1961 during a JATP tour, since pianist Lou Levy was with Ella Fitzgerald at the time and bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen were with pianist Oscar…
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