“For six years now I’ve been arranging and booking EllaFitzgerald’s concert and club dates, and wherever she goes, herreception bears out an opinion that I have long held: People wholove good popular music are the same all over the world. Take, forexample, this record – “Mack The Knife”. It was recorded during aconcert at the Deutschlandhallen in Berlin which holds almost12,000 people, and you can hear the same enthusiastic reaction,the same eager applause, that mark similar recordings Ella hasmade before live audiences in America. That concert – and thisalbum – have come to be regarded as something special becauseof Ella’s version of Mack The Knife. It was the first time she’d sungthe song, and not knowing the lyric too well, she substituted herown – for what may well have been an improvement on theoriginal.” - Norman Granz