Ella Fitzgerald gave two performances on April 4, 1965 in the Congress Hall at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. In the clip we see journalist Lucjan Kydryński holding flowers. He served as an announcer during the concert. There's a shot of Oscar Peterson. You can also see musician Andrzej Jastrzębski playing a sousaphone.
We hear fragments of songs: "Old MacDonald" and "Mack The Knife".
According to the pre-printed program, there were two parts of the show:
PART I
OSCAR PETERSON Trio
◦ Oscar Peterson - piano
◦ Ray Brown - double bass
◦ Ed Thigpen - drums
CLARK TERRY and
◦ Oscar Peterson - piano
◦ Ray Brown - double bass
◦ Ed Thigpen - drums
PART II
ELLA FITZGERALD accompanied by TOMMY FLANAGAN Trio
◦ Tommy Flanagan - piano
◦ Keter Betts - double bass; his name is spelled "Skeeter Betts" on the brochure
◦ Gus Johnson - drums
featuring:
◦ Clark Terry - trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn
Next to the short biographies of the singer, Peterson, Terry and Flanagan, the brochure also has a bio of the impresario Norman Granz. The header says: "The Norman Granz Group in Poland".
archiwum.allegro.pl/oferta/ella-fitzgerald-kongresowa-1965-program-i8968344953.html
According to Lucjan Kydryński's article titled "17 hours (in Warsaw) with Ella Fitzgerald", she sang more than fifteen songs each time. During the second performance half of the repertoire was different.
przekroj.pl/archiwum/artykuly/67643
Clip taken from the Polish Film Chronicle 15A/65: repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=en/node/11073
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