Juarez JAZZ FEST

01/12/2025

01/12/2025

In early 1960, Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage at Berlin’s Deutschlandhalle to perform “Mack the Knife.”

Everything was going smoothly… until the moment she clean forgot the lyrics.

Most singers would panic. Ella didn’t. Instead, she improvised new lines on the spot — playful, cheeky, brilliantly musical — slipping in references to Louis Armstrong, poking fun at herself, and weaving fresh rhymes effortlessly.

The crowd roared. The band locked in. And Ella delivered one of the most iconic live moments in jazz history.

The recording, released as Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife, went on to win two GRAMMY Awards, including Best Female Vocal Performance. All from a performance where she literally made up the lyrics as she went along.

That's just one story from the life of Mack The Knife, as you'll find out via the link in comments...

[📸 Ella Fitzgerald by Brian McMillen at Brian McMillen Photography]

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Birthday remembrance to grandmaster of grandmasters composer extraordinaire, pianist, arranger, lyricist, the brilliant William Thomas “Billy”Strayhorn!

Carl Van Vechten • Public domain

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Del homenaje al genio mexicano Juan García Esquivel por la Orquesta Nacional de Jazz de México, «Mini Skirt» compuesta en 1968.imagenes del libro homenaje a ...

01/12/2025

Remembering Gato Barbieri on his birthday! 💙
Leandro Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016),
known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for "the cat" Barbieri), was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s.
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20/11/2025

Don Cherry
November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995

Photo: FRANCE. Var department. Town of Ollioules. Chateauvallon Jazz Festival. August 1972.

The American jazz musician Don CHERRY (trumpet, cora, percussion, flute) and his son Eagle-Eye CHERRY.

Photo: Guy Le Querrec