Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72

Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72
Live album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released	August 2, 1972
Recorded	June 2, 1972
Venue	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	146:56
Label	Pablo
Producer	Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Reunion Blues (1972) Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972) Great Connection (1974)

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Jazz at Santa Monica '72 is a 1972 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium accompanied by a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

This concert recording was initially sold through mail order by the jazz producer and impresario, Norman Granz, as a three-LP set. The success of the album led to Granz founding Pablo Records, his first record label since Verve Records, which he had sold to MGM in 1960.

The concert was originally announced as featuring only the Count Basie Orchestra and Ella Fitzgerald, but Granz had 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.