Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72

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Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72

Live album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released	August 2, 1972
Recorded	June 2, 1972
Genre	Jazz
Length	146:56
Label	Pablo Records
Producer(s)	Norman Granz
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Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella A Nice (1971)	Jazz at Santa Monica '72 (1972)	Take Love Easy (1973)

Jazz at Santa Monica '72 is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

This concert was initially sold through mail order by the jazz producer and impressario, Norman Granz, as a three-LP set. The phenomenal success of the album led to Granz founding Pablo Records, his first record label since Verve Records, which he later sold to MGM.

The concert was originally intended to feature only the Count Basie Orchestra and Ella Fitzgerald, but Granz invited some surprise "guests", the trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Harry "Sweets" Edison, the tenor saxophonists, Stan Getz and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, and the pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown.

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Introductions by Norman Granz – 1:00
“Basie Power” (Ernie Wilkins) – 3:07
“The Spirit Is Willing” (Sammy Nestico) – 4:37
“The Meetin' Time” (Oliver Nelson) – 4:50
“Blues in Hoss's Flat” (Count Basie, Frank Foster) – 5:08
“Good Time Blues” (Ernie Wilkins) – 7:34
“In a Mellow Tone” (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 15:00
“Loose Walk” (Johnny Richards, Sonny Stitt) – 10:48
“Makin' Whoopee” (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:57
“If I Had You” (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 3:26
“She's Funny That Way” (Neil Moret, Richard Whiting) – 3:05
“Blue and Sentimental” (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 1:58
“I Surrender Dear” (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 3:11
“5400 North” (Roy Eldridge) – 13:34
“You Are My Sunshine” (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell) – 8:41
“L.O.V.E.” (Milt Gabler, Bert Kaempfert) – 3:16
“Begin the Beguine” (Cole Porter) – 4:27
“Indian Summer” (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) – 4:34
“You've Got a Friend” (Carole King) – 5:12
“What's Going On” (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) – 4:06
“Night and Day” (Cole Porter) – 5:17
“Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most” (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 4:13
“Little White Lies” (Walter Donaldson) – 3:24
“Madalena” (Ronaldo Monteiro de Souza, Ivan Lins) – 3:37
“Shiny Stockings” (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:55
Cole Porter Medley: “Too Darn Hot”/“It's All Right With Me” (Cole Porter) – 3:20
“Sanford & Son Theme” (The Streetbeater) (Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones) – 2:58
“I Can't Stop Loving You” (Chick Webb, Tom Jones) – 6:12
“C Jam Blues” (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) – 11:05