The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World

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Released1975
RecordedMarch 26 and July 1, 1967
Venue
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
Live album by
Various artists
Released1975
RecordedMarch 26 and July 1, 1967
Venue
GenreJazz
Length182:09
LabelPablo
ProducerNorman Granz
Duke Ellington chronology
The Jaywalker
(1966-67)
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
(1975)
Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
(1957-67)

The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World is a 1967 live album featuring Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, T-Bone Walker, Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry and Zoot Sims. It was released in 1975.[1]

Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" was debuted at the Carnegie Hall concert featured on the album. It was Strayhorn's last composition; he died a few months after the piece was recorded.[2]

The album marked the last recorded collaboration between Fitzgerald and Ellington and his orchestra.

The album contains the last recordings of Coleman Hawkins. During the opening of "Sweet Georgia Brown", Hawkins can be heard to say "I guess I've gotta go through with it". Then someone replies "That's right".

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow noted: "In addition to having a somewhat immodest title, this three-CD set was not actually one single concert but two...the music on the reissue is often quite special...Maybe this really was 'the Greatest Jazz Concert' after all".[1]

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