Ella at her best in the later years of her career

Ella performing live is always an exciting experience. The live session at the Ronnie Scott's club includes Ella's best - from Sweet Georgia Brown through The Man I Love to balads like Every Time We Say Good Bye. The ballads display Ella's deeper emotionality but I liked best is her incredible talent to scat and improvise as no one else. In short, great fun and a good chance to get to know the mature Ella Fitzgerald.

She's nearly 60

Although this may not be her best live set when compared to the Opera house or Berlin concerts, but boy does she entertain. This concert gives the listener a chance to hear her inter-react with her audience and it appears that she loves her London fans. She opens with a jabbing 'Georgia Brown' and her ever popular UK hit 'every time we say goodbye'. She then starts to have fun with 'My man' which is similar to her "Fine and Mellow' album version
and somehow get's 'diamonds and my heart belongs to daddy'in it.
She then wades into 'It don't mean a thing' where she impersonates classical, C&W, Dixie and Soul train music). It is really quite amusing. There is a nod to Carole king (youv'e got a friend) and a fast scat of 'Lemon drop'
Her finale is 'Happy Blues' which is more of a happy talk along.
I am a Ella fan and only regret, I did not buy this sooner.